In Chrome, how many redirects are "too many"?
Chrome and Firefox out of the box is 20, Internet Explorer is 10, I couldn't tell you on Opera or Safari
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.
Tested on Win 7 64bit
- Chrome 64bit
Version: 49
↷80.0.3987.132 (Official Build)
, 19 redirects - Chrome Canary 64bit,
Version: 49
↷88.0.4306.2 (Official Build)
, 19 redirects - Firefox 32-bit
version: 43
↷74
, 20 redirects - Firefox 64-bit
version: 43
↷74
, 20 redirects- Firefox 64-bit
67.0.4
, endless loop!
- Firefox 64-bit
- Opera
version: 28
, ↷65.0.3467.62
19 redirects - Safari
version: 5.1.7
, 16 redirects - IE
version: 8
11 redirects via webpagetest.org - IE
version: 9
121 redirects via webpagetest.org - IE
version: 10
121 redirects via webpagetest.org - IE
version: 11.48.17134.0
110 redirects - Microsoft Edge
version: 42.17134.1.0
20 redirects - Google Nexus 5, Samsung Galaxy S4 ⇄ S9, Galaxy Tab 4, 19 redirects