Redirection limits

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great John Cowan once stated:
> 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.

  The original limit was 5.  But 9,015 (at the precise moment) is a bit
excessive.  The limit of 5 was to help prevent the creation URL shortners
that are so prevelant on the web.

  Ah, I see that the limit is now mentioned in the Best Practices document,
not the specification.  Still, a clent *should* give up redirections past
some amount (11,329 as of now).

  -spc (11430 ... )