UNCONFIRMED 81215
Infinite browser loop via Refresh headers 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81215
Summary Infinite browser loop via Refresh headers
Niels Heinen
Reported 2012-03-15 06:41:17 PDT
Refresh headers allow browser redirection but unlike 3xx redirects, there is no limit. This can cause infinite loops when two servers give responses where the Redirect headers point to each other. HTTP/1.0 200 OK Refresh: 0; url=http://server2 HTTP/1.0 200 OK Refresh: 0; url=http://server1 The loops suck CPU and some screen flickering so --> not the most user-friendly ;-) Perhaps it can be considered enforce a maximum Refresh limit in order to counter these loops? Niels
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