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Infinite redirections if field "Home page url" is used in new settings tab

Gitlab 7.7 introduced a new settings tab corresponding to the previous gitlab.yml config file.

That tab contains a field "Home page url" where I entered the home page of our forge http://our.forge.com/

Entering such URL just prevents people for connecting the forge with infinite redirections.

I believe it is because logging requires people to go to https://our.forge.com/users/signin and because the user is not logged, it is always redirected to https://our.forge.com/, which in turns redirect to https://our.forge.com/users/signin and so on ...