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Bug 1565 - Neverending sequence of 301 redirections

Summary:	Neverending sequence of 301 redirections

Status: RESOLVED FIXED Product: Wikimedia Classification: Unclassified Component: General/Unknown (Other open bugs) Version: unspecified Hardware: All All Importance: Low minor (vote) Target Milestone: --- Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this! URL: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo%2FBar Whiteboard: Keywords: Depends on: Blocks:   Show dependency tree / graph		Reported: 2005-02-19 20:23 UTC by Mormegil Modified: 2005-02-27 06:02 UTC (History) CC List: 0 users See Also: Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: --- Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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Description Mormegil 2005-02-19 20:23:31 UTC An URL containing hex-encoded forward slash (%2F) causes Wikipedia to go to a neverending sequence of 301 Moved Temporarily, each adding a /wiki/ prefix. HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently (...) Location: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki/Foo%2FBar (...) etc. Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2005-02-27 06:02:52 UTC 404 handler no longer tries to do the fatal redirects.