Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

2016-10-08 3:53 GMT+02:00 Anthony Baldwin <baldwinlinguas@gmx.com>:

On 10/07/2016 06:42 PM, davidson@freevolt.org wrote:

On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Tony Baldwin wrote:

I have a little business card website up for my big brother's media
consulting side-business at http://playomatic.myownsite.me.
Now, at the moment, if I try to load it in Google-Chrome-Stable, I'm
getting redirected to a yahoo! search for "create web",
If I try to load it in the floss chromium, I get a spammy landing page,
But in all of Iceweasel, lynx, w3m, elinks it loads fine, and nothing
has changed on my server (no redirect added to my vhost by an intruder
or any such thing), also neither ping nor traceroute seem to indicate
anything untoward or fishy.
The only thing I haven't tried is Epiphany, Konqueror, Safari, or IE.
Oddly, it seems to work fine in chrome on my android phone, though.

How can I determine what's interfering with this page loading in some
browsers, and not others? or what's redirecting my traffic, and how I
can stop it or prevent future re-occurrence?

This problem sounds bizarre to me.

One less-than-obvious conceivable factor that occurs to me is that
some webmail interfaces (looking at you, gmx.com) will point urls in
email text at creepy redirects (presumably so that your email provider
can log what you read).

But I'm typing the url directly into the browser, and not clicking on a link in an e-mail.
Also, when I sign out of chrome/chromium-sync, it works fine again. so yeah, definitely something very odd going on.

For example, a link labeled

http://playomatic.myownsite.me

will point to

https://deref-gmx.com/mail/client/[Some-Alpha-Numeric-Code]/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fplayomatic.myownsite.me

If one of those redirects happens to be broken, through no fault of
yours, then following such links in emails might result in unexpected
behaviour not unlike what you are seeing.

A shot in the dark, for what its worth.

Can you use the chrome developper tools to see what's going on ? (Press the F12 key while chrome is open) Select the network tab, and type the url in your address bar.

The network panel should show you what happens

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