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Re: Braindead server? or "What am I doing wrong?"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Wed Jun 11 05:13:55 1997
From: S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk
To: snowhare@netimages.com (Benjamin Franz)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:45:35 +0100 (BST)
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970609135715.27574A-100000@ns.viet.net> from "Benjamin Franz" at Jun 9, 97 01:59:54 pm
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Benjamin Franz wrote:
> >
> > 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 [until]
> > 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. :(
ARGH!
Thanks for the information. Does NS/IE suffer the same problem if you
disable cookies in them too, then?
--
Stewart Brodie, Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~snb94r/
