Trying to connect to JNDI remotely, but get exception with description "Server redirected too many times"

Issue

Customer has JBoss running on their local machine. When they go to a browser and type in http://localhost:8080/invoker/JNDIFactory, the browser download a file named JNDIFactory.

But when they try to configure a client to use that URL via JNDI http initialfactory implementation, they keep getting

javax.naming.NamingException: Failed to retrieve Naming interface for provider http://10.10.117.60:8080/invoker/JNDIFactory [Root exception is java.net.ProtocolException: Server redirected too many  times (20)]
    at org.jboss.naming.HttpNamingContextFactory.getInitialContext(HttpNamingContextFactory.java:96)
    at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:667)
    at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:288)
    at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:223)
    at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:197)
    at org.jboss.soa.esb.samples.quickstart.helloworldaction.test.SendJMSMessage.setupConnection(SendJMSMessage.java:52)
    at org.jboss.soa.esb.samples.quickstart.helloworldaction.test.SendJMSMessage.main(SendJMSMessage.java:89)
Caused by: java.net.ProtocolException: Server redirected too many  times (20)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(HttpURLConnection.java:1496)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getChainedException(HttpURLConnection.java:1490)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1144)
    at org.jboss.naming.HttpNamingContextFactory.getNamingServer(HttpNamingContextFactory.java:209)
    at org.jboss.naming.HttpNamingContextFactory.getInitialContext(HttpNamingContextFactory.java:92)
    ... 6 more
Caused by: java.net.ProtocolException: Server redirected too many  times (20)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1451)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getHeaderField(HttpURLConnection.java:2301)
    at java.net.URLConnection.getHeaderFieldInt(URLConnection.java:579)
    at java.net.URLConnection.getContentLength(URLConnection.java:474)
    at org.jboss.naming.HttpNamingContextFactory.getNamingServer(HttpNamingContextFactory.java:204)
    ... 7 more