occasionally useful » internet http://blog.maxaller.name ruby, ubuntu, etc Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:01:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 IE + AJAX + Redirects http://blog.maxaller.name/2009/09/ie-ajax-redirects/ http://blog.maxaller.name/2009/09/ie-ajax-redirects/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:12:02 +0000 Max http://blog.maxaller.name/?p=186 So we made an interesting discovery these past days...IE handles some redirects in AJAX really, really badly.

This table explains:

Redirect URL
To itself To another page
FF Redirect 18-20 times Didn't test
IE Redirect until you close the browser Redirect 10 times

(By "redirect to itself" I mean you have some bug in your logic such that page http://example.com/?page=1 will redirect to itself indefinitely.)

Do you like that "redirect until you close the browser" one? Even if you go to a completely different site, the browser will still be making requests to yours.

Moral of the story: be very careful with redirects with AJAX.

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