AOL browser problem

[koolsamy]

I am working on a site for which some part of the site is on Server 1 and the other part is on server 2. The pages on server 2 are inthe secured layer (https) and the server 1 pages work under normal http.

now the working of the site is user access the homepage on server 1 , then system redirects user to server 2 gets some info regarding the user and comes back to the server 1 and displays the homepage. This flow works very well in all browsers except for the AOL.

In AOL browser the flow goes in to the infinite loop. It keeps going to server 2 from server 1 comes back to server 1 and so on ....... user cant access the site at all........ anyone has got any idea y this is happening?

[tedster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, koolsamy. Nasty little problem, eh?

then system redirects user to server 2

How is this redirect accomplished? Whatever the technology, this seems to be the trouble spot, right?

I'd bet the complication is coming in because your web servers expect both the secure and the non-secure requests to be coming from the same IP address. But because of AOL's proxy servers, the http: requests will come from the AOL proxy-caching server, and the https: requests are coming direct from the user (because they are not going to be cached by AOL).

It's only a guess, but I think it's worth checking this direction out.

[koolsamy]

hey thanx a lot tedster for the opinion,i have confirmed that the requests are coming from different IPs but i really dont undertand y it would go in to the loop? i m no really able to understand ... can u pls explain.