Re: Interesting Ali Express web server behavior...

[Mike Lyon <mike.lyon () gmail com>]

I notice a weird issue like this with Alibaba when i try to use my Comcast connection. Turn my wifi off and now it 
works flawlessly.

Are you using your comcast connection?

-Mike

> On Dec 9, 2023, at 21:17, 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/.