Redirect loops and mazes
plugd
plugd at thelambdalab.xyz
Mon Oct 14 13:01:40 BST 2019
Sean Conner writes:
> Point the client to any of the following:
>
> gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/redirhell/
> gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/redirhell2/
> gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/redirhell3/
> gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/redirhell4
> gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/redirhell5
>
> (NOTE: the links will continuously redirect)
Thanks Sean, this is great.
> I suspect that most would expect the client to stop making requests after
> N redirects. What's N? That hasn't been decided yet.
In addition to a redirect threshold, it's of course also easy for
clients to keep track of the addresses seen during a redirect sequence,
in which case they can just abort on a redirect to a seen address.
plugd
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