weird redirect for forums url using http

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gzorn

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Hi Patrick et al.,
I'm really hoping this isn't a PICNIC (problem in chair not in computer).

This is all on a win10 machine using latest Chrome 59 x64. Sometimes I go directly to the forums website. If I type the url: ServeTheHome and ServeThe.Biz Forums, everything works beautifully.
If I type in the url: http://forums.servethehome.com, it redirects to https://forums.forums.servethehome.com/ (note the extra 'forums') which fails to resolve DNS. This only seems to happen the first time I visit the website on a given invocation of chrome, but it's otherwise repeatable. Incorrect redirect code?
 
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T_Minus

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I tried non-hTTP myself on FIreFox and Chrome and it didn't redirect improperly attempting to go direct to forum.

There might have been improper redirection in the past that was updated/fixed yet your browser has it cached?

Have you tried clearing cache/cookies for this domain only?
 

gzorn

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I tried non-hTTP myself on FIreFox and Chrome and it didn't redirect improperly attempting to go direct to forum.

There might have been improper redirection in the past that was updated/fixed yet your browser has it cached?

Have you tried clearing cache/cookies for this domain only?
Thanks, @T-Minus.
Tried wiping the cache/cookies, and it still does this on chrome, edge, and firefox, all on this computer. Another windows box does the same. They're both using google's DNS servers(8.8.8.8). Oh well, not a big deal.
 

gzorn

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Sigh - it works fine at home (which, granted uses different DNS). Incredibly odd. Don't worry about it. I'll repost if I can narrow it down. It's a good learning experience for me.
 

Terry Kennedy

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I will fix if I can get a way to re-create.
There's a 301 redirect going to the wrong place:
Code:
~terry% telnet forums.servethehome.com 80
Trying 65.19.142.5...
Connected to forums.servethehome.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /index.htm HTTP/1.1
host: forums.servethehome.com

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.10.0 (Ubuntu)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 09:16:51 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 194
Connection: keep-alive
Location: https://forums.forums.servethehome.com/index.htm
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15768000

<html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.10.0 (Ubuntu)</center>
</body>
</html>
Telnet, so no cache / proxy / etc.
 
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