[R-pkg-devel] How to fix "Number of redirects hit maximum amount"?

[Spencer Graves]

Hello, Simon, Ben, Ivan, Uwe:


Thanks for the suggestions.


I followed Ivan's suggestion of replacing the problem URL with a call to 
a copy on archive.org, and it passed all the tests locally and on 
winbuilder devel, release, and oldrelease.


Spencer Graves


On 9/2/25 18:43, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> FWIW same here from the other hemisphere - it's an infinite loop in their webserver. I’d say that confirms that the link is not accessible, so definitely needs fixing.
> 
> Looking at the package, I think that link is entirely pointless anyway, because it doesn't even point to the data source, so either point to the actual page with the data or remove (pointing to the archive for the CDE front page is just as useless IMHO).
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
>> On 3 Sep 2025, at 09:43, Ivan Krylov via R-package-devel <r-package-devel using r-project.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 17:00:18 -0400
>> Ben Bolker <bbolker using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe there's something region-specific?
>>
>> Definitely. For me, with or without cookies enabled,
>> https://www.cde.ca.gov/ reliably returns a 303 redirect to
>> https://www.cde.ca.gov/wafalert.html?_event_transid=<large hexadecimal
>> string>, which in turn returns a 303 redirect to the same address.
>>
>> The Internet Wayback Machine does have some good snapshots; not all
>> captures are redirects to validate.perfdrive.com:
>> http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.cde.ca.gov/
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20250823081216/https://www.cde.ca.gov/
>>
>> -- 
>> Best regards,
>> Ivan
>>
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