[Lynx-dev] Google vs redirection limit [was Re: what controls the redirect limit?]

[Mouse]

> I admit I'm surprised that gmail found a way to break even a limit of
> 10.

So was I, a little.  But this _is_ Google we're talking about.

Turns out I still have a trace log.  Here's what it shows, with details
that might contain private data (mostly encoded stuff) replaced with
"redacted".

Start: http://mail.google.com/
301 to /mail/ -> http://mail.google.com/mail/
302 to https://mail.google.com/mail/
302 to 
https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=https://mail.google.com/mail/&ss=1&scc=1&ltmpl=default&ltmplcache=2&emr=1&osid=1#
200 OK
(user interaction here)
POST to /signin/v1/lookup
302 to 
https://accounts.google.com/signin/challenge/pwd/1?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F&service=mail&ss=1&scc=1&rm=false&osid=1&flowName=GlifWebSignIn&ltmpl=default&ifkv=redacted%3D%3D&TL=redacted
200 OK
(user interaction here)
POST to /signin/challenge/pwd/1
302 to 
https://mail.google.com/accounts/SetOSID?authuser=0&continue=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.google.ca%2Faccounts%2FSetSID%3Fssdc%3D1%26redacted%3Dredacted%26continue%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmail.google.com%252Fmail%252F&osidt=redacted&ifkv=redacted%3D%3D
302 to 
https://accounts.google.ca/accounts/SetSID?ssdc=1&sidt=redacted&continue=https://mail.google.com/mail/&ifkv=redacted%3D%3D
302 to https://mail.google.com/mail/
302 to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/
302 to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=html&zy=g
302 to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/redacted/?zy=g&f=1
200 OK

Interestingly, the log I have ends there.  Either Google had changed
something between my having the issue and the taking of that trace or
the redirection count limit applies even when user interaction
interrupts the flow of redirections; I count only 10 redirections
across the whole session.

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