[10838] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Braindead server? or "What am I doing wrong?"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Franz)
Mon Jun 9 17:13:34 1997
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 13:59:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@netimages.com>
To: S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <3756.9706091451@strachey.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997 S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote:
> [A user of my browser] wrote:
> >
> > I encountered the following and thought I should let you know about it.
> > When I try to access the following server
> >
> > http://www.mck.co.za/
>
> It goes on to attempt to set a cookie, but I've got the browser
> configured at my end to throw away cookies. Hence, it attempts to
> follow the redirect. Then it just carries on talking to the server,
> getting a response, reissuing the request and looping around forever
> unless it runs out of memory which is what happened to my user
> reporting the bug to me or until it hits the trap in my code for
> a maximum number of redirects on a request. Once the latter occurs,
> it stops and complains of a redirect loop.
[...]
> What is Netscape & Internet Explorer doing that I don't??
Accepting the cookie. The server seriously wants that cookie. It will not
stop looping until it gets it. :(
--
Benjamin Franz
