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Date:      10 Oct 2000 13:55:56 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Joe Warner <jswarner@uswest.net>
Cc:        freebsd newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mysterious URL
Message-ID:  <xzpem1o3o6r.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Joe Warner's message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2000 05:43:58 -0600"
References:  <39E300FE.3510B43E@uswest.net>

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Joe Warner <jswarner@uswest.net> writes:
> Does anybody know why this URL:
> 
> http://www.ihatelinux.com/
> 
> ..authenticates to microsoft.com?

You mean it redirects HTTP requests to www.microsoft.com. Anybody can
do that, it doesn't mean there's any relationship between Tim Fries
(owner of the ihatelinux.com domain) and Microsoft.

des@des ~% telnet www.ihatelinux.com http
Trying 216.122.88.119...
Connected to ihatelinux.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.ihatelinux.com
User-Agent: telnet
Connection: close

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:51:30 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.1.1 SSL/1.15 PHP/4.0b2
Location: http://www.microsoft.com
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/x-httpd-cgi

0

Connection closed by foreign host.

(BTW, that box has a telnet server running)

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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