Bug 152477 - Limit cached redirect chain length
Summary: Limit cached redirect chain length
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Page Loading (show other bugs)
Version: WebKit Nightly Build
Hardware: Unspecified Unspecified
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
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Reported: 2015-12-21 06:20 PST by Antti Koivisto
Modified: 2015-12-21 11:57 PST (History)
3 users (show)

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2015-12-21 06:54 PST, Antti Koivisto 		kling: review+
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Description Antti Koivisto 2015-12-21 06:20:11 PST 
Networking layer prevents cycles and limits the redirect chain length so creating cache cycles is difficult. For robustness the network cache should still limit the maximum redirect chain length.
Comment 1 Antti Koivisto 2015-12-21 06:54:13 PST 
Created attachment 267749 [details]
patch
Comment 2 Andreas Kling 2015-12-21 11:13:36 PST 
Comment on attachment 267749 [details]
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View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=267749&action=review

r=me

> Source/WebKit2/NetworkProcess/NetworkResourceLoader.cpp:53
> +// Networking layer follows over 30 redirects but caching that many seems unnecessary.

This comment sounds platform-specific.
Comment 3 Antti Koivisto 2015-12-21 11:57:30 PST 
https://trac.webkit.org/r194337