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Recently I could stopped at a Firefox internal page warning me of Redirect Loop. The one which you see below.

image18 Redirect Loops How browser detects?

So, What is a Redirect Loop?

From the name you could easily understand that redirects just keeps on looping between a couple of webpages and doesn’t land in any of the webpage. These kind of redirects are termed as Redirect Loop.

redirect loop Redirect Loops How browser detects?

The HTTP Standard states that a client browser should detect a infinite Redirect Loops. But some of the clients ( like Firefox, Internet Explorer ) just tries with limited number of redirects and then finally drops a warning page like above ( in Firefox ).

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