limited url redirections

[Nomarian]

proposal to change behavior of http.request{redirect=bool} to integer. behavior should mimic curls --max-time

[alerque]

Why should the API mimic curl?

This would be a major change to the current API and there would have to be some significant benefit for it to be considered.

[Nomarian]

It seems like a security vulnerability, I have not looked at the code, but an infinite redirect could happen.

Looking at the code, it seems there's a max redirect limit of 5. having control of this variable would be nice. but that eases my worries.