Collected research

Hellfire for redirectors

Пекельний вогонь для редиректорів (Hellfire for redirectors) - Websecurity

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.

Record

Document

Пекельний вогонь для редиректорів (Hellfire for redirectors) - Websecurity

Published by

websecurity.com.ua

Topic

Other

In the archive

• Collected in the 2009 research round

Tags

• open-redirect
• dos
• http
• url-parsing
• owasp-a04-2021

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of websecurity.com.ua, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 9 August 2026.