Re: [whatwg/fetch] Why does Fetch specify a max redirect count of 20? (#576)

@cdumez Asking folks internal to see if there's any Ancient Wisdom behind this limit, but from source archaeology for Chrome, our limit of 20 was chosen to match Gecko/Firefox at the time we first open-sourced

See https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+blame/5cbb127e6b67a646b98a460faf89740f29b91403/net/url_request/url_request.cc - which traces its provenance of kMaxRedirects to Gecko.

Given that Safari is limiting to 16, that seems compelling enough to suggest there is limited risk, and interoperability is always good. Barring any concerns being shared, I think we'd be open to aligning with Safari.

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