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Proxy causing infinite loop

Open ronnross opened this issue 4 years ago • 5 comments

Built project into a folder /dist/ui/

cd into /build

run command:

http-server -p 9000 --cors='*' --proxy http://localhost:9000/ui?

I was able to see the app running by navigating to http://localhost:9000/ui. I clicked on a client-side route like http://localhost:9000/ui/reports handled by reach-router. The app served as expected. I hit refresh in the browser. I hoped it would fallback to ui/ and rerender the /reports route (like it does in the webpack-dev-server). Instead I saw


"GET /ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/favicon.ico

in the terminal and

Error: ENAMETOOLONG: name too long, stat '/Users/<name>/path/to/project/dist/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ui/ ...

I'm on Mac OS X 10.15.4

http-server v0.12.3

node 10.16.0

ronnross avatar Jun 25 '20 17:06 ronnross

This issue has been inactive for 180 days

github-actions[bot] avatar Aug 17 '21 12:08 github-actions[bot]

Possibly the same as #671 and/or #525. Is this still ocurring with http-server v13.0.0?

thornjad avatar Aug 17 '21 14:08 thornjad

This issue has been inactive for 180 days

github-actions[bot] avatar Feb 15 '22 12:02 github-actions[bot]

I am having a similar issue with http-server v14.1.1 and node v14.17.5. Post requests are causing infinite redirects and 431 response instead of 405.

AlexPetrova avatar Sep 20 '22 07:09 AlexPetrova

CentOS 7 I am having a similar problem with http-server v14.1.0 and node v14.17.5. Post requests are starting infinite redirects. image

ti129 avatar Sep 15 '23 11:09 ti129