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Re: Curl reports: "Maximum (50) redirects followed"

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 15:58:20 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Michael Wood wrote:

> As far as I understand it, he tries to fetch a URL and the server returns:
>
> Location:
> /promos../../p/promos/winter-vacation-deals?langid=4105&affcid=network.cj.3211374.11259876.&affcid=cj3211374

...

> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-5.2.4

Yeah, it clearly seems as if finally not having this part imlemented actually
makes a difference.... Kinda curious that it has taken 15 years of HTTP
operations for this to become a problem!

Anyone feels like taking a stab at implementing section 5.2.4 of RFC3986 for
libcurl?

(Thanks for digging out the details and posting them here)

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2013-03-04