Colin Alston <karnaugh@karnaugh.za.net> writes:
Has anyone else noticed strange things with support.microsoft.com?
If I wget it ('http://support.microsoft.com/') from anywhere, I get an index.html fine.
If I use lynx, I get gibberish (gzipped content, without a correct header)
If I use Firefox or IE behind some Squid proxies in certain places, it doesn't understand the content either.
Looks like either they are not correctly encoding the content based on browser capabilities.
Not only that. They are actually redirecting to a 404 not found page based on User-Agent. Compare these two requests: bjorn@canardo:~$ telnet support.microsoft.com 80 Trying 207.46.248.248... Connected to support.microsoft.akadns.net. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.1 Host: support.microsoft.com Connection: close HTTP/1.1 302 Found Connection: close Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:43:58 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 P3P: CP="ALL IND DSP COR ADM CONo CUR CUSo IVAo IVDo PSA PSD TAI TELo OUR SAMo CNT COM INT NAV ONL PHY PRE PUR UNI" X-Powered-By: ASP.NET ETag: X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 Location: /default.aspx?scid=gp;[ln];gsserr404&style=error&errurl=%2fDefault.aspx Set-Cookie: .ASPXANONYMOUS=JUEKFqPcyAEkAAAAZWU4OTVjZDktZTQyNi00ODNkLTkxMmMtMmZiNjhjZDg4NDYyIaA8To0Ty4xrBwpDO9AYeo974f81; expires=Thu, 03-Jul-2008 00:23:58 GMT; path=/; HttpOnly Cache-Control: private Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 196 Connection closed by foreign host. bjorn@canardo:~$ telnet support.microsoft.com 80 Trying 207.46.248.248... Connected to support.microsoft.akadns.net. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.1 Host: support.microsoft.com Connection: close User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30) HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: close Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:46:13 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 P3P: CP="ALL IND DSP COR ADM CONo CUR CUSo IVAo IVDo PSA PSD TAI TELo OUR SAMo CNT COM INT NAV ONL PHY PRE PUR UNI" ETag: X-Powered-By: ASP.NET X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 Cache-Control: public Expires: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:45:06 GMT Vary: * Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 28183 Connection closed by foreign host. The site is designed specifically NOT to work except if you've got an approved browser. I guess they just don't want lynx users there... Bjørn _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog