"This webpage has a redirect loop" in Chrome but working fine on FF and IE?

Question

The page http://www.japanforum.com/forum/japanese-language-help/39454-~tara-past-tense-clause.html is accessible using FireFox / IE / Safar / Opera.

However on Chrone, the page doesn't display:

Does anyone know what may be the cause of the problem?

Or rather, what is the explanation for this phenomenon?

Answer 1

I appears that you are trying to redirect to the correct SEO-friendly URL, e.g. if I go to test/39454-foo.html, it redirects me to test/39454-~tara-past-tense-clause.html.

You compare the requested URI to the expected one and redirect if they do not match.

However, there are multiple ways of writing the same URI. Some browsers may send ~ urlencoded and some may not, for example.

So you should canonicalize both URIs before comparing them.

Answer 2

Double-check the redirection settings on your server. Add-on domains should not include "www." when being added. Without this, this will solve the redirection problem.