Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.6) Installed from: Compiled From Sources Compiler: gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3) OS: Linux Going to http://www.nominet.org.uk/go/replyform returns a redirection page as follows: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:35:28 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.48 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.48 OpenSSL/0.9.7c mod_jk/1.2.12 Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=32AA689366810FF77ED9229C3EDEE5CD; Path=/ Connection: close Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>URL Redirect</title> <script language="JavaScript1.1"> <!-- location.replace("/registrants/maintain/changedetails/online/"); //--> </script> <noscript> <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL="/registrants/maintain/changedetails/online/" /> </noscript> </head> <body> <p>You should automatically be redirected to the new page. If not, please click <a href="/registrants/maintain/changedetails/online/">here</a>.</p> </body> </html> With JS enabled, the page redirects correctly. But with JS disabled, so that the http-equiv="Refresh" takes effect, Konq loops indefinitely fetching the /go/replyform page. Admittedly the redirect is not done properly (which doesn't give one confidence in the UK's main domain name registrar :-). Although the "Refresh" header is not specified in any RFC, its original specification http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/pushpull.html says that "make sure the URL you give is fully qualified" and here it is not. But visiting such a page should not put the browser into an infinite loop.
The problem isn't the relative URL, I think: it's the miss-quoting. Disabling following of redirects, and JS, this is what the attribute 'content' of the <meta> is as parsed as: 0; URL= .. and then there is an attribute named /registrants/maintain/changedetails/online/"
The issue cannot be reproduced in KDE4 trunk (r. 799086). The site is redirected. Note that the redirect page has been changed to : /registrants/maintain/onlineservices/
Mmh.. My bad, their website is still looping when js is disabled.
Konqueror does what the HTML tells it, so I don't think this can be fixed.