Safari :Too Many Redirects

This is a problem with the link you clicked on; there's nothing you can do except notify the webmaster of the site for that link.

HI,

Try Open DNS Click the computer icon and follow the instructions. Safer faster way to surf the net.

Redirects are a result of your ISP. Change those DNS numbers and see if it helps.






Carolyn 🙂

Carolyn wrote:

Redirects are a result of your ISP.

I beg to differ. Redirects are a result of poorly coded URLs, which direct to A, then to B, to C, etc. There are only a certain number of redirects allowed, and that URL seems to have exceeded them. It's not caused by their ISP at all.

*"An ISP redirect page is a page used by major ISPs including: Cox Communications, Embarq, Verizon and various others.'*

From here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISPredirectpage

Which the justification for changing DNS.

An ISP redirect page is a page used by major ISPs including: Cox Communications, Embarq, Verizon and various others.

That's not the same as too many redirects. All ISPs use a redirect page when you type in an incorrect URL that they don't have cached or isn't able to be looked up.

Carolyn Samit is correct on this one. We see this a lot in this forum. It's the IPS that causing this problem. Changing the DNS can fix this. This isn't cause by a poorly coded web page. If that were so I would be redirected everything I went to a web page.

If I remember right, if there are redirects in a web page Google will flag the page/site. Why would someone like to get flagged by Google?

This is kind of like when you see links in a web page that have two underlines. This link are not made by the author or a poorly coded web page, it hackers. I see this a lot on web page. You should never click on a link with two underlines.

Message was edited by: David M Brewer

You're entitled to your view, but I disagree. I've seen too many redirects, even after I've been using OpenDNS for years. The problem isn't the ISP; if you have a URL that redirects too many times, you will get that message regardless of what DNS server's you're using. If you just typed in the wrong URL or the link for the URL is wrong to begine with, you won't (or shouldn't) get that same message; you should only get a generic, unhelpful "site not found" type of message.

MSN Live's hotmail uses a "lot" of redirects when logging in.
You could test it on there.

That URL works fine for me on Safari 3.x.x and Safari 4.0.2.

Hi pachyx;

That URL works fine for me using Safari 4.0.2.

Allan