Subject: strange redirection effect accessing http://www.xs4all.nl
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Georg Schwarz <georg.schwarz@freenet.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/01/2005 17:04:51
Is anyone able to explain the following difference? Both machines are in
the same private subnet behind the same NAT device:

lorenz 111% /usr/local/pkg/bin/lynx --version | head -3
Lynx Version 2.8.5rel.2 (22 Apr 2004)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7f
Built on irix5.3 Jan  6 2005 20:11:04
lorenz 112% /usr/local/pkg/bin/lynx -dump -head http://www.xs4all.nl
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 14:55:59 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Win32)
Location: http://mebora.nl/mebora.asx
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1


but

sapporo: {12} lynx --version | head -3
Lynx Version 2.8.5rel.2 (22 Apr 2004)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7d
Built on netbsdelf Oct 15 2004 19:22:03
sapporo: {13} lynx -dump -head http://www.xs4all.nl   
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:01:28 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a mod_ssl/2.8.16
OpenSSL/0.9.7d
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html


The same phenomenon occurs with (BSD) ftp and with wget.


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