Re: Braindead server? or "What am I doing wrong?"

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

Received on Monday, 9 June 1997 17:00:14 UTC