Re: Redirect cycle detected for URL, if redirect adds a trailing slash

Branko Čibej wrote:
> On 11.09.2019 18:22, Julian Foad wrote:
>> $ svn ls https://archive.apache.org/dist
>> Redirecting to URL 'https://archive.apache.org/dist':
>> Redirecting to URL 'https://archive.apache.org/dist':
>> svn: E195019: Redirect cycle detected for URL
>> 'https://archive.apache.org/dist'
>> [...] >>
>> Does that make sense?
>
> It does not.
>
> [...] No DAV headers there, so it's not a Subversion repository and not our
> problem. Compare to:
>
> $ curl --request OPTIONS --include https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf

Gah... I was comparing https://archive.apache.org/dist/ with
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/ and somehow it did not occur to me
that the former might not be a repository.

Thanks for setting me straight!

It is a confusing error message, though. The redirect "cycle" is only
Subversion that made it a cycle, and is not the real problem. We could
do better.

- Julian
Received on 2019-09-13 11:04:29 CEST