Subject: Re: [weirds] loop breaking, was I-D Action: draft-ietf-weirds-redirects-01.txt

From: Simon Perreault <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:33:10 +0100

Le 2013-02-28 23:48, John R Levine a écrit :
>>> curl and wget recognize and break redirect loops.  Javascript depends
>>> on the browser in which it's running, but they all break redirect
>>> loops, too. It's very simple: after some large fixed number of
>>> redirects, like 20, they declare failure and stop.
>>
>> If I understood the above correctly it is about having the client
>> (browser, etc.) perform loop detection instead of doing it on the
>> server side.
>
> Correct.  My point is that all likely clients already do loop breaking
> at the http level, so there's no point in trying to do it again.

+1

No need for face time about this in Orlando.

Simon
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