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

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 11:35:21AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:

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> >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
> 
> That doesn't seem to tell me anything traceroute doesn't, except
> trqacerout doesn't get redirect to a Yahoo! search like chrome does,
> but nothing I see there seems ot clarify WHY or HOW it's getting
> redirected, it's just showing me that it IS being led though some
> circolocuitous route to where it should not.

A shot in the dark, but worth a try anyway: IPV4 vs IPV6?

But I'd rather suspect Chrome doing something weird to the URL before
resolving (or -- who knows! having its own built-in resolver).

Perhaps looking at the traffic with tcpdump/wireshark can give you
an idea.

Regards
- -- tomás
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