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Hellfire for redirectors

An open redirector on an ordinary site can be paired with a shortener such as tinyurl.com so each service redirects to the other indefinitely, a looped DoS that loads both hosts. Mozilla halts loops signalled by Location or Refresh headers but not by meta-refresh or JavaScript, IE does not halt them at all, and crawlers amplify the effect.

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