5Sep/090
IE + AJAX + Redirects
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.