In Chrome, how many redirects are "too many"?

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Akshat · Feb 21, 2012 · Viewed 28.2k times · Source

Often, when a script has a redirect loop we get an error in Google Chrome that says

Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects.

How many redirects are too many?

Answer

Google Chrome 17.0.963.56 allows a maximum of 20 redirects, as tested with this PHP script:

<?php
    $redirect = (isset($_GET['redirect'])) ? $_GET['redirect'] : 0;
    header("Location: redirects.php?redirect=" . ($redirect + 1));
?>

Chrome aborts with error 310 when trying to open redirects.php?redirect=21, which means that the first 20 redirects were successful.