Netflix Endless Loop



  • Looks like even Netflix can get the simplest things wrong:

     

    http://www.netflix.com/redirect.jsp?target=



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    CS is TRWTF once again..



  • @MorallyLost said:

     

    CS is TRWTF once again..

    It also likes not to show your post just after you posted.

    Back to the topic, aren't META-based redirects TRWTF?



  • @Spectre said:

    Back to the topic, aren't META-based redirects TRWTF?

    No.  Not every site has the ability to modify headers.  Obviously Netflix should, but meta tags exist to overcome this limitation of HTTP, so there's nothing WTFy about them. 



  • The curious thing is that "Refresh" is actually a HTTP header itself, it's just almost never used as one. However, it still works. (at least in IE7 and FF3.06)

    If you have netcat, you can try it out yourself:

    nc -lvp 80 <<EOF
    http/1.1 200 OK
    content-type: text/plain
    content-length: 5
    refresh: 5; url=http://www.google.com

    hello
    EOF

    Connect to localhost and it should redirect you to google after five seconds.



  • @PSWorx said:

    If you have netcat, you can try it out yourself:

    nc -lvp 80 <<EOM
    http/1.1 200 MEOW
    content-type: text/meow
    content-length: 5 meows
    refresh: 5; url=http://www.meowmix.com

    meow
    EOM

    FTFY


  • @belgariontheking said:

    @PSWorx said:

    If you have netcat, you can try it out yourself:

    nc -lvp 80 <<EOM
    http/1.1 200 MEOW
    content-type: text/meow
    content-length: 5 meows
    refresh: 5; url=http://www.meowmix.com

    meow
    EOM

    MEOWFY
     

    FTFY



  • @morbiuswilters said:

    @Spectre said:

    Back to the topic, aren't META-based redirects [b]when you can alter the HTTP response[/b] TRWTF?

    No.  Not every site has the ability to modify headers.  Obviously Netflix should, but meta tags exist to overcome this limitation of HTTP, so there's nothing WTFy about them. 

    FTFM, kthxbye.



  • @PSWorx said:

    The curious thing is that "Refresh" is actually a HTTP header itself, it's just almost never used as one. However, it still works. (at least in IE7 and FF3.06)

    If it works it doesn't yet mean it exists. ;=]


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