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Actually if you check better what is going on at the HTTP level you find the bug. Just look at it using wgetRequest: http://secunia.com/ie_redir_test_1Answer: 302 with Location: mhtml:http://secunia.com/ie_redir_test_2where MHTML is a special mime for storing a full web page in a HTML file. Thenthe browser peforms the redirectionRequest: http://secunia.com/ie_redir_test_2Answer: 302 with Location: http://news.google.com/finally a good browser should stop the forwarding because of the different domain, butinstead IE gets confused and grabs the external resource.
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Actually if you check better what is going on at the HTTP level you find the bug. Just look at it using wget
Request: http://secunia.com/ie_redir_test_1
Answer: 302 with Location: mhtml:http://secunia.com/ie_redir_test_2
where MHTML is a special mime for storing a full web page in a HTML file. Then
the browser peforms the redirection
Request: http://secunia.com/ie_redir_test_2
Answer: 302 with Location: http://news.google.com/
finally a good browser should stop the forwarding because of the different domain, but
instead IE gets confused and grabs the external resource.