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Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior...
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 17:17:49 -0500
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On Dec 10, 2023, at 2:17 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr> wrote: On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 09:55:31PM -0800, Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog () nanog org> wrote a message of 1136 lines which said:But why would AliExpress be redirecting to DDN space? Is this legitimate? Ali hoping to get away with squatting, or something else?No idea. The IP address does not reply to HTTP requests, anyway. A practical joke? Note that this redirection takes places only when there is no User-Agent field. If you say 'User-Agent: Mozilla', you get a proper redirection, in my case to https://fr.aliexpress.com/.
My guess would be they’re doing this to redirect unwanted / non-legitimate traffic away.
Current thread:
- Interesting Ali Express web server behavior... Owen DeLong via NANOG (Dec 09)
- Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior... Stephane Bortzmeyer (Dec 09)
- Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior... Mike Lyon (Dec 09)
- Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior... Owen DeLong via NANOG (Dec 10)
- Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior... Jon Lewis (Dec 10)
- Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior... Mike Lyon (Dec 09)
- Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior... Sabri Berisha (Dec 09)
- Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior... Christopher Hawker (Dec 10)
- Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior... William Herrin (Dec 10)
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- Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior... Giorgio Bonfiglio via NANOG (Dec 10)
- Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior... Owen DeLong via NANOG (Dec 10)
- Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior... Sabri Berisha (Dec 11)
- Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior... owen--- via NANOG (Dec 11)
- Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior... Christopher Hawker (Dec 10)
- Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior... Lincoln Dale (Dec 11)
- Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior... Stephane Bortzmeyer (Dec 09)