Unblock Optimizely Web Experimentation's additional redirect check

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When you set up a redirect experiment, Optimizely Web Experimentation blocks other redirects for five seconds to prevent an infinite loop of redirects. You can unblock this redirect block.

For example, this might happen if you set a redirect test from www.example.com/original to www.example.com/redirect, and you have set URL Targeting to a substring match for www.example.com

This triggers an infinite redirect loop because the original and redirect pages meet the targeting conditions.

If you do not want to block additional redirects for five seconds and are sure that your URL targeting does not include any matches for the site being redirected, then you can unblock additional redirects.

  1. Select an experiment. 
  2. Click Design > Variations and select a variation that contains a redirect.
  3. Select the Allow Additional Redirect checkbox.