Container Looping

[cwolland]

Container Looping

[patienttruth]

It seems that there is a Pull request that might help with this issue, #2114, however it could use some time to get it through final review.

As a workaround, you can manually add a site to your container list with this workaround:

I had to turn my network adapter on and off a few times to get all the right URLs to get this working. I am concerned about Google changing the subdomain they're using from "lh3" to something else if they reconfigure something...

#2114 (comment)

To get my issue working (Google Photos Download) I had to have the following URLs within the container list:
https://lh3.google.com/
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/
https://accounts.google.com/
https://google.com/
https://photos.google.com/

It took a moment to figure out every single one.

FYI, you can check the list of domains in your container here. Mine only has one container populated # 6 which is the "Google" container. I haven't tested it, but I believe by right clicking on an entry you could delete it from the database.

[patienttruth]

I've found this happens when you have "limit to designated sites" turned on. My theory is that what's happening is that the link is redirecting to a page that isn't within the container, authentication cookies aren't being passed, the new page redirects with a "try to authenticate again" page that is within the container scope, and then the loop continues. I'm running through the same problem right now. I think if there were a little more open access to the container lists we could probably sort this out.

My issue example is with Google Photos.

Google Photos is working properly within my Google container. When I click "download photo", some part of the process must be redirecting outside the scope of the Google container. I tried shutting off my network and adding the additional domain (googleusercontent.com), however that didn't solve it entirely. Maybe there is a third domain involved that I'm unable to capture.

[patienttruth]

I believe this issue is related to "Site Redirect" breaks "Always Open Container #X" #2372

[stewSquared]

@patienttruth
Sometimes, the redirect loops happen so fast, I can't figure out which sites need to be added manually.
Got any tips and tricks for that?

[patienttruth]

@patienttruth Sometimes, the redirect loops happen so fast, I can't figure out which sites need to be added manually. Got any tips and tricks for that?

@stewSquared , There is probably a way to watch for the DNS requests, but I haven't looked into that. What I did was shut off the network connection while Firefox was looping. Each time I would get a new domain to add to the list. Eventually it cleared up. Lately I've been finding with Google that it's only one new domain and it doesn't go into a loop. I think I have got most of the loop sorted out now.