http redirection limit in safari
Hi,
I'll try to be as clear as possible about my question:
Situation
I took 10 Macbook Air's out of their boxes, installed Mountain Lion and installed the latest updates.
When visiting a (Citrix) portal, i have no issues with Safari after logging in and clicking on the presented ICA file.
Next, i took 10 Macbook Pro's out of their boxes, repeated the same steps to install and update them. When visiting that same portal, logging in with the same credentials, i get errors in Safari about too many HTTP redirects.
Research on this topic
- I've researched this error, many people blame the website your visiting. this is wrong in my case, since the first 10 laptops didn't show that error.
- It is advised to reset Safari; i tried. didn't solve my problem. Besides, why would it make a difference since the first 10 laptops didn't get that error ?
- It turned out, after Googling some more about this, that each browser (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera) has a limit set for HTTP redirections (the default amount of max. redirections is 20).
- On lots of websites people fixed this issue bij installing FireFox, which i is my preferred solution; i want my customers to just use Safari. But, for being sure if this would indeed solve the issue i tried this solution: in about:config changing the properties for HTTP redirection settings from 20 to some higher value (i used 999 in my test) fixed the issue. This seems to be the proof getting the "too many HTTP redirections" isn't neccesarily caused by the website. It is caused by the restriction of having a max ammount of http redirections in Safari.
The Question
In Safari 6, how do i change the max ammount of HTTP redirections ?
Is there some sort of hidden preference pane ?
