Re: "Too many Redirects".

Hugh Sasse wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Laurent Carcone wrote:
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>> Hello Hugh,
>>
>> Amaya is based on the libwww for HTTP requests and there is indeed a maximum
>> of redirection allowed in the library (I guess to avoid infinite loop). By
>> default this maximum is set to 5 and Amaya set it to 7 at the initialization
>> (so more than the spec suggests).
>> I haven't see any difference between HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 concerning this
>> aspect in the library.
>>     
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> The part of the spec that I quoted suggests to me that there should be.
> Who maintains the library?  I seem to recall that the linemode browser
> which was part of the library is no longer maintained.
>   
Indeed, the libwww is no longer maintained

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>> So , there is no way in the current version to dynamically change this
>> maximum.
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> What about future versions of Amaya?  == Are you giving this the status
> of WONTFIX?
>   

I guess we won't change the maximum of redirects defined in Amaya 
initialization.
Can you give us a uri so that we can test the number of redirections 
needed in this case ?

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>> I guess it's the first report on this problem, the mail you pointed out
>> concerns a redirection problem for the PUT method and I think it has been
>> fixed.
>>     
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> Would redirect code be so different for put and post that it would not be
> shared?  What causes you to think it has been fixed -- can you look it up,
> or is this from memory?
>   

The problem was in Amaya code (when Amaya treats the result of the 
request), not in the libwww, and it has been fixed.

Thanks,
Laurent Carcone

>> Regards,
>> Laurent Carcone
>>
>>     
>         Thank you,
>         Hugh
>   
>> Hugh Sasse wrote:
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>>> I have been attempting to debug a problem (with colours not showing
>>> up) on an internal server.  I've tried a number of browsers,
>>> (Firefox, internet explorer and Opera) but when I remembered Amaya
>>> is more rigorous, I tried that.  It detected bugs in the HTML, but
>>> also it gave me a message about too many redirects.
>>>
>>> It turns out that HTTP 1.1 mentions this:
>>>
>>> Q> 10.3 Redirection 3xx
>>> Q>         [...]
>>> Q>    Note: previous versions of this specification recommended a
>>> Q>    maximum of five redirections. Content developers should be aware
>>> Q>    that there might be clients that implement such a fixed
>>> Q>    limitation.
>>>
>>> so therefore it no longer applies in HTTP 1.1, only 1.0.  I can't find
>>> any means of turning this error detection off.  I agree that it is a
>>> useful warning for 1.0 compliance, but if the client has requested 1.1
>>> then it should not matter, should it?
>>>
>>> Searching the archives for previous reports of this problem I found this:
>>>
>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-amaya/2006JulSep/0019.html
>>>
>>> which is about 2 and half years old, but doesn't seem to have been
>>> implemented.  I had six redirect questions to respond to before this
>>> other error message came up, and that was for one submit button.
>>>
>>>         Thank you,
>>>         Hugh
>>>
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>>>       
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