From: Rich Graves (rcgraves@brandeis.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 19 2000 - 09:31:00 CDT
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Steve Hideg wrote:
> But what is the difference between sending the browsers (embedded or
> otherwise) a redirect as opposed to simply returning the registration
> page? Does the redirect cause a bigger performance hit on the server?
Broken embedded http agents, the worst of which is RealPlayer, may not
understand redirects and may, under not-so-uncommon circumstances, enter a
tight loop requesting the same URL over and over, dozens of times per
second.
I don't remember what client it was, but there's something out there that
doesn't understand "https:" so it discards it and requests // and then
//// and then ////// and then //////// until it hits the 8K (?) limit and
Apache returns a 5xx error. Then it repeats.
Make your ErrorDoc a page that explains what's happening, and provide a
_hyperlink_ to the registration page.
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