Forum OpenACS Q&A: Latest Mozilla - Infinite redirect error

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1: Latest Mozilla - Infinite redirect error
Posted by Chris Crownhart on 01/17/01 07:18 PM
I am trying to preview my development version of an openacs 3.2.4 site
with the latest mozilla (0.7), and I get a redirect error.

The URL gets changed to:
        jar:resource:///chrome/comm.jar!/content/necko/redirect_loop.xul

and the error I get back is:
        Redirection error: Infinite loop detected

I get this error even if I point to a simple page that has no redirect
and just has a ad_header and ad_footer.

Any ideas?

Thanks.  Chris

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2: Response to Latest Mozilla - Infinite redirect error (response to 1)
Posted by Chris Crownhart on 01/17/01 07:27 PM
Here's a couple more notes:

1.  I'm running my browser on a Redhat 7.0 box.

2.  It works fine on Netscape.

3.  I just tried a simple html page, and it gave me the same error:
    <html>
    <body>
        <p />Hi.
    </body>
    </html>

Thanks again.

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3: Response to Latest Mozilla - Infinite redirect error (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 01/17/01 08:28 PM
I'm running Mozilla 0.7 on my RH 6.2 box with no problems, other than
the fact that it now renders pages weird.  Mozilla 0.6 was better at
rendering but crashed randomly, which is not true of 0.7.  So there's
something wrong with your installation, but I have no clue as to what
it might be.

I'm not sure which behavior I prefer, random crashes or constantly
screwed-up rendering.  The rendering errors are minor but annoying.
And buttons jump around the screen sometimes when I click on them,
instead of "posting" to the server.

These guys have a *long* ways to go.

Konqueror works really well except for over-aggressive page caching
that causes ACS (and other dynamic sites) to display old pages from
the cache when they should be dynamically regenerated from the server.
However, Konqueror seems to be on a much, much better development
trajectory.

We all know that Netscape on Linux sucks ...

Sigh ...

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4: Response to Latest Mozilla - Infinite redirect error (response to 1)
Posted by Chris Crownhart on 01/17/01 09:16 PM

A little more information AND a fix.

I changed the hostname and address in the nsd.tcl file to be hardcoded, and now the page works in mozilla. I can't explain it, mostly because I'm not sure what ns_info is doing. 

####set hostname              [ns_info hostname]
####set address               [ns_info address]
set hostname              host.kaivo.com
set address               123.123.12.12