Redirect Loop on Forums

[vodoo]

Hi

When I navigate from http://forums.opensuse.org/ ==> Community ==> Social Groups I get this:

Redirect Loop

Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page.
This may be caused by cookies that are blocked.

The browser has stopped trying to retrieve the requested item. The site is
redirecting the request in a way that will never complete.

* Have you disabled or blocked cookies required by this site?
* NOTE: If accepting the site's cookies does not resolve the problem, it is likely a server configuration issue and not your computer.

Browser is set to "Accept all Cookies". Is that a hickup on the server side?

[hendersj]

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:56:01 +0000, vodoo wrote:

> Browser is set to "Accept all Cookies". Is that a hickup on the server
> side?

In general, clearing the cookies and cache seems to resolve this issue
when it hits. It's a client-side issue (of sorts - in that it can
generally be fixed by taking the actions I've described)

I ran into it a couple days ago myself.

Jim

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[vodoo]

Hi Jim

Thank you for the information. BTW using 11.1 32bit with seamonkey 1.1.18 here. I cleared all cookies and the cache and did restart seamonkey --> still the same.

So I tried with Firefox 3.0.8, again deleted cookies and cache --> same error.

This is a minor problem for me, but I thought to let you know.

> In general, clearing the cookies and cache seems to resolve this issue
> when it hits.

cleared all *.opensuse.org/* and *.novell.com/* cookies and dumped
cache, shutdown & restarted FF.0.14, logged in, nav
http://forums.opensuse.org/ > Community > Social Groups
and got:

Redirect Loop

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for
this address in a way that will never complete.

The browser has stopped trying to retrieve the requested item. The
site is redirecting the request in a way that will never complete.

* Have you disabled or blocked cookies required by this site?
* NOTE: If accepting the site's cookies does not resolve the
problem, it is likely a server configuration issue and not your computer.

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palladium
Have a lot of fun..

[hendersj]

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:56:01 +0000, vodoo wrote:

> Hi Jim
>
> Thank you for the information. BTW using 11.1 32bit with seamonkey
> 1.1.18 here. I cleared all cookies and the cache and did restart
> seamonkey --> still the same.
>
> So I tried with Firefox 3.0.8, again deleted cookies and cache --> same
> error.
>
> This is a minor problem for me, but I thought to let you know.

Very strange, that does normally take care of the issue.

Anyone else seeing an issue with this at present?

Jim



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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator

[hendersj]

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:36:11 +0000, palladium wrote:

> cleared all *.opensuse.org/* and *.novell.com/* cookies and dumped
> cache, shutdown & restarted FF.0.14, logged in, nav
> http://forums.opensuse.org/ > Community > Social Groups and got:

Good to know, let me check into this.

Jim



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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator

[hendersj]

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:56:01 +0000, vodoo wrote:

> Hi
>
> When I navigate from http://forums.opensuse.org/ ==> Community ==>
> Social Groups I get this:
>
>> Redirect Loop
>>
>> Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested
>> page.
>> This may be caused by cookies that are blocked.
>>
>> The browser has stopped trying to retrieve the requested item. The site
>> is
>> redirecting the request in a way that will never complete.
>>
>> * Have you disabled or blocked cookies required by this site? * NOTE:
>> If accepting the site's cookies does not resolve the problem, it is
>> likely a server configuration issue and not your computer.
>
> Browser is set to "Accept all Cookies". Is that a hickup on the server
> side?

This is a known issue with the social groups feature - but as we don't
use the "social groups" feature, it's not a high priority to correct this
problem.

Jim

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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator

_maybe_ teach it to point to a quick loading page saying something
like: This feature not used.

at least, that will cause the next who tries it to not post a trouble
report here..

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palladium
Have a lot of fun..

[hendersj]

On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:47:02 +0000, palladium wrote:

> _maybe_ teach it to point to a quick loading page saying something like:
> This feature not used.
>
> at least, that will cause the next who tries it to not post a trouble
> report here..

I've asked if it can be removed since we don't use it.

Jim



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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator

even better!
probably one of those things to change with every revision.....sigh.

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Have a lot of fun..