As reported within Bug 59047. Regarding httpsampler.max_redirects, there is indeed a BUG, as we don't enforce the property "http.protocol.max-redirects" in HTTPHC4Impl to the value of JMeter property "httpsampler.max_redirects".
Author: pmouawad Date: Sat Mar 5 16:00:12 2016 New Revision: 1733731 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1733731&view=rev Log: Bug 59079 - "httpsampler.max_redirects" property is not enforced when "Redirect Automatically" is used Bugzilla Id: 59079 Modified: jmeter/trunk/src/protocol/http/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/sampler/HTTPHC3Impl.java jmeter/trunk/src/protocol/http/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/sampler/HTTPHC4Impl.java jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/3860