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Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« on: September 07, 2003, 03:27:38 AM »
...or sold off to some loser? I won't provide a link, as I don't want to have people pissed off when they click it. I did find that us.aminet.net still works as expected.

All I'm going to say here is that when I typed the www one in last (this very evening) I didn't get what I expected, and there were lots of pop-up windows.
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2003, 04:04:29 AM »
I get forwarded to here.
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2003, 12:44:01 PM »
OK,

Additional testing puts it down to Safari, the browser for OSX, because Internet Explorer5 and Netscape Navigator4.7 don't do it here either.
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2003, 01:18:26 PM »
I got to a feedback page and entered the following post to them:

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After testing with Safari, Internet Explorer5, and Netscape Communicator4.7, I have concluded that there is some kind of bug in Safari 1.0.

Whenever I try to go to www.aminet.net with Safari, I get redirected to www.aminet.org instead. The two sites are completely different than each other, and Explorer and Navigator do not behave in this manner when going to this website, www.aminet.net.

Other users have also tried going to www.aminet.net and they have not been redirected either.

I am using Safari 1.0 on OSX 10.2.6; Mac G4 at 400MHz with 576 megabytes of RAM.


Then got a noticed about how support feedback should be sent to their support forums, which then got me into a tangled web of trying to log in to that. I never did figure out my ID and password to do that.  :-x
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2003, 06:21:48 PM »
You know, that might have something to do with it. Danamania, what type of account do you have---56k, 28.8k, or broadband? I'm on a dialup that is supposed to support 56k, but that doesn't ever connect beyond 33.6k.

For now, I'm just gonna go to us.aminet.net, as that one doesn't redirect on me.
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2003, 06:26:18 PM »
Just checked the source code at www.aminet.net from work. There's nothing there that would do it; no redirect at all, and the title indicates that typing in "us." instead of "www." just brings you quicker to the same place.

We're getting it narrowed down, though. :-)
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2003, 09:21:12 PM »
@Odin:
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