Re: Why don't I get a redirect

[swiftone]

Odd. I telnetted to port 80 on said box, sent "GET /glujodat.html" and got the following reponse (HTML removed:)

Could not determine the website that you were looking for.

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The link in question is /_dnscentral_scripts/findhost

I can only assume the page redirects you to that script, which does not exist.

Update: Two bits of info. Twiddling the Agent (as suggested by dws) didn't seem to make a difference in this case (though it's good general advice). And the error I got also mentioned: DNS Code: HTTP_HOST not available . I'm not sure if that's relevant, since HTTP_HOST is a server-side heading (I thought), but maybe it's useful.

[dws]

Odd. I telnetted to port 80 on said box, sent "GET /glujodat.html" ...

If that box supports multiple virtual sites, you'll need to issue a complete HTTP/1.1 request, naming the site you're trying to fetch the page from.

  GET /glujodat.html HTTP/1.1
  Host: www.nellware.com

should suffice.

[jonjacobmoon]

Yes, specificing the agent as suggested does not work.
And, telnet to the box as suggest above only returns a customized 404 page. I suspect that there is some sort of DNS forwarding going on, but I am not sure how it works in this case.

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