Redirection limits

[John Cowan]

It seems to me that the limit on redirection should be purely a client
issue rather than a hardwired part of the spec.  Some clients won't want to
redirect at all, others will want to retry 1 or 5 or 100 times, depending
on what they are being used for.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 9:42 PM Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:

>
>   At some point the limit of redirections has apparently been removed from
> the Gemini specification.  I only say this because the client at
> 185.240.246.12 has been caught in my Redirection From Hell test for some
> time (a steady pace---I'm not complaining about how fast it's doing it).
>
>   The specification *used* to have a limit of 5 total redirections.  I
> think
> that needs to be added back into the specificaiton.
>
>   -spc
>
>
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