redirect loop when trying to access mail.yahoo.com

[plubius3]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

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.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 22 21:25:21 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[plubius3 (marcusosborne)]

This is not occurring when I use Epiphany web browser

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 01:30:33AM -0000, plubius3 wrote:
> 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.
>

This is most likely an extension issue. Please disable your extensions
in dialog accessible through Tools -> Addons menu.

If you know which extension caused this or the problem doesn't
disappear let us know.

waiting for response ...

 status incomplete

 - Alexander

[Dounia MILLIMONO (dmillimono)]

Same here.

I have disabled all my extensions and the problem still exists.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 07:10:16PM -0000, Dounia MILLIMONO wrote:
> Same here.
>
> I have disabled all my extensions and the problem still exists.
>

Plese give us the url where you get the infinite redirect. Please come
up with an example of a public available url in case one needs an
account.

Also please report the website as broken in the "help" menu.

 status incomplete

 - Alexander

[Dounia MILLIMONO (dmillimono)]

I've got something new: I tried to access http://mail.yahoo.com and it failed again (infinite redirect).

Then I tried to access my emails by clicking on "Mail" on the http://www.yahoo.com homepage, and it failed again.

Finally, I signed out from YaHoo! (on the homepage), then I returned to YaHoo! Mail directly and got prompted with the usual login screen. I entered my credentials and I accessed my emails!

I assume this is an ad hoc fix for those of you who encounter this problem.

Concerning the bug, it could be related to the cookie, as there is an auto-redirect for users who have already signed in (i.e. their "remember me" option).

Note that I have not reported that the site was broken.

MD

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 05:13:54PM -0000, Dounia MILLIMONO wrote:
> I've got something new: I tried to access http://mail.yahoo.com and it
> failed again (infinite redirect).
>
> Then I tried to access my emails by clicking on "Mail" on the
> http://www.yahoo.com homepage, and it failed again.
>
> Finally, I signed out from YaHoo! (on the homepage), then I returned to
> YaHoo! Mail directly and got prompted with the usual login screen. I
> entered my credentials and I accessed my emails!
>
> I assume this is an ad hoc fix for those of you who encounter this
> problem.
>
> Concerning the bug, it could be related to the cookie, as there is an
> auto-redirect for users who have already signed in (i.e. their "remember
> me" option).
>
> Note that I have not reported that the site was broken.
>

Sounds like a web-application bustage (on server side - aka a yahoo
bug).

 status invalid

 - Alexander

[Gregory Oschwald (osch0001)]

On one computer, I experience this on both Google Calendar and Westlaw. I am reopenning it. Firefox 2 worked fine. It also appears that this happens on other builds of Firefox 3, so I don't think it is merely the Ubuntu build.

[Gregory Oschwald (osch0001)]

Ok, clearing the cache and the cookies fixed the problem (although it didn't a few days ago).

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 01:38:39PM -0000, Gregory Oschwald wrote:
> Ok, clearing the cache and the cookies fixed the problem (although it
> didn't a few days ago).
>

this most likely is a website issue.

 status invalid

 - Alexander

[David Oxland (doxland)]

I have a similiar problem on my laptop running Hardy while the Desktop, also with Hardy, does not have this problem and performs all necessary tasks normally.
my message is as below;

Bad Referer
You have accessed this page through an invalid referer.
This activity has been logged.

Remote ID: 142.32.83.250
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008060309 Firefox/3.0

The site I'm trying to access and am successful is bcauction.ca but then when trying to login to bid or pay for items get the bad referer message.
 I've disabled all addons and ad deleted all cookies but no success.

Thanks