Firefox is smart enough to accept the incorrect syntax, but not IE. As far as IE is concerned there is no redirect URL and it sees this as an instruction to reload the current page. Thus the loop.

Tracing this was an interesting exercise because the HTTP-EQUIV attribute is supposed to contain a valid HTTP header but RFC 2616 doesn’t contain a “Refresh” header. So, while I easily found a bunch of Web authoring pages that describe the syntax of this as an HTML element I struggled to find the authoritative definition of “Refresh” as an HTTP header. For the record, it is a Netscape extension from the old days that never made it in the spec but is still supported. This is the closest to a formal spec for that HTTP header.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. It should now be fixed.

My turn of phrase might be a little confusing, but I wasn’t telling Damon “you’re wrong to link to stage.vambenepe.com, what were you thinking”. In fact, stage.vambenepe.com is the correct URL for this blog. What I was saying is “here is the reason why I chose stage.vambenepe.com (and not something like blog.vambenepe.com) as the sub-domain for that blog, it’s because I think this blog participates in a large comedy called the blogosphere”.

I know that http://www.vamnbenepe.com redirects to stage.vambenepe.com, that’s by design. Where is the redirect loop? I am not aware of stage.vambenepe.com pointing to http://www.vambenepe.com.

I have plenty of shortcomings in my “web skills” (never really learned to use CSS properly, still over-reliant on HTML tables…) but I don’t think they are in evidence in the text you quote. My lack of ability to write clear English on the other hand might be. Or maybe it’s you reading a little too fast.

Actually, its your own fault. Your RSS feed has links to stage.vambenepe.com.
Furthermore, going to http://www.vambenepe.com redirects to stage as well. Right now, its a redirect loop.

You’ve got some wise things to say in your blog, but they are undermined by your apparent lack of web skills. Perhaps you should be less smug in your comments to Damon until you’ve sorted this out. *cough*