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when I search for "melamine" on wikipedia.org's main search page, I get a redirect loop error in firefox browser.
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Author: crisplogic

Description:
I'm not sure where I should enter this bug report or if it is even a bug. I tried the search from two different computer within my company's intranet and I get the same error.

Please note that I can get to the page on melamine by searching google and clicking on the wikipedia related link ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melamine ). But when I search for "melamine" on wikipedia.org's main search page, I get a redirect loop error in firefox browser ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=melamine&go=Go ).

Cookies are NOT disabled in my browser, so that is not the problem.

No need to contact me back; as long as you folks are aware of the issue.

Thanks!
Just trying to help,

Azim

This is the error displayed in firefox:

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.

Version: unspecified
Severity: minor
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=melamine&go=Go

Details

Reference
bz15781

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:19 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz15781.
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crisplogic wrote:

I also just tried from my other system (Ubuntu) and I get the same/simlilar error (and the URL displayed in the url field is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=melamine&go=Go):

The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

    


    
    


*   This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
      cookies.

We are aware. There are dirty entries in the squids from the problems we experienced some hours ago.

This is logged as fixed as of 18:21 UTC.