handling of url redirection

[SignpostMarv Martin]

Martin Atkins wrote:
> It may be worth noting that some implementations have both a limit on 
> the actual number of redirects and on the total time for the request, 
> including all redirects. In otherwords, unreasonable redirects can be 
> measured by the time taken to do them rather than their actual number.
>   
I categorise a timeout as being an unreasonable redirect. What happens 
if a delegate server is being DDOS'd ?

~ Marv