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

Not considering the the difference in what counts as a redirect in various engines for a second, and given @mnot 's comment from earlier. I'll mention that if the limit of 20 were to be spec'd in an HTTP RFC, it would probably be easier to get CFNetwork updated. The limit of 20 in the Fetch spec is unfortunately not a very strong argument to get such change done in our lower networking stack level.

Otherwise, I think Chrome gathering data on how safe it would be for them to lower their limit to 16 sounds like a good idea. Just note when added such logging that we'd want to know if users experience over 16 redirect but the load actually succeeds (i.e. total redirect count was not over 20).

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