[Klug-general] htaccess issues with firefox

Dan Attwood danattwood at gmail.com
Wed Dec 22 11:42:16 UTC 2010


On 22 December 2010 11:33, David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com> wrote:

> Silly suggestion. Have you tried closing down firefox and restarting it?
>
> I remember suffering pain for hours related to cookies, redirects, file
> permisions and related stuffs (this was two years ago). Closing firefox and
> restarting it seemed to make it all work as expected. Perhaps this is the
> same bug.
>
> On 22 December 2010 11:17, Dan Attwood <danattwood at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I'm diving into htacess rules for the first time and have the following:
>>
>>
>> RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*TestCookie.*$ [NC]
>> RewriteRule .*  /loginfailed.php [R]
>>
>>
>> This tests for a cookie and then redirects if it doesn't exist. It working
>> fine in IE and chrome but in Firefox it redirects to:
>>
>> http://mydomain/loginfailed.php?id=50
>>
>> the id variable is causing Firefox to show 'The page isn't redirecting
>> properly'
>>
>> Chrome and IE don't show the id variable in the redirect link.
>>
>> anyone htaccess gurus out there?
>>
>>
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