re: acl's and redirect loops

From: tom minchin <tom@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:43:04 +1000

On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 09:33:53AM +1000, Dancer wrote:
> True. The basic ACL rejection mechanism provides a useful security tool,
> if nothing else. Also, it allows us to cope with certain 'emergency'
> conditions (There's one site where http://sitename/dirname/ redirects to
> http://sitename/dirname/dirname/ which redirects to
> http://sitename/dirname/dirname/dirname/ and so on forever. Oddly, and
> we have yet to explore exactly why, this brings squid 2.2 to it's knees)
>

The philips.com search page has one of those "spirals of death" in it.

tom@interact.net.au
Received on Sun Jul 25 1999 - 18:33:08 MDT

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