Redirection limits

[John Cowan]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 1:28 PM Philip Linde <linde.philip at gmail.com> wrote:


> I'm not entirely convinced that automatic redirects are good. Manual
> redirects that present the users with a link to the redirection target
> could be unlimited and still make it more obvious to users when they're
> thrown about.
>

Not all clients have human users attached, though.  Crawlers and other
automated applications need to make their own decisions when to stop.

Which reminds me: what is the best thing for such an application to do when
it gets a 1x response?



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