[ic] Strange redirect behavior - only in Frefox

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 01/09/2011 11:53 AM, DB wrote:
>> On 01/09/2011 11:28 AM, DB wrote:
>>> Suddenly in the last day or two I'm seeing some odd behavior in both
>>> catalogs running on my server. I've made no recent changes to the server
>>> or to IC configuration.
>>>
>>> If I click the link to the basket:
>>>
>>> http://www.domain.com/ord/basket.html
>>>
>>> Firefox 3.6.13 under XP shows an error:
>>> "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for
>>> this address in a way that will never complete."
>>>
>>> Also if I log into the admin area, I get bounced to the admin login page
>>> each time I click a link such as "content" or "tables"
>>>
>>> I've rebooted my local machine and the server, and also cleared all
>>> cookies and cache.
>>>
>>> This seems to only happen in Firefox, not in IE or Chrome. Does anyone
>>> recognize this behavior or have a suggestion about what may be wrong?
>>>
>>
>> It looks like you don't get a session assigned with Firefox. I would guess
>> that the robot detection misfires, so check if you have the following
>> entries in your robots.cfg:
>>
>> NotRobotUA<<EOR
>>       AskTB,
>>       Seekmo,
>>       SearchToolbar,
>>       MSIE,
>>       Gecko,
>> EOR
>>
>> You need at least MSIE and Gecko.
>>
>> Regards
>> 	Racke
>>
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>
> Thanks - you were correct... my NotRobotUA section was horribly out of
> date and correcting that cured my problem.
>
> What I find very strange is that this behavior started just a couple of
> days ago. FF has been using Gecko for quite some time now, no?
>

I suppose you installed one of these wonderful toolbars / extensions matching
a RobotUA definition.

Regards
	Racke


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