[u-u] oeb.ca geo-blocked?

[Giles Orr]

> On February 11, 2025 11:07:26 AM EST, Bruce Becker <bdb at 0123456789-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw.xyz> wrote:
> >
> > on F/F, "oeb.ca" times out altho "oeb.ca/" works as expected
> >
> >      On Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 10:29:25 a.m. EST, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:
> >
> >  Not sure if it's geo-blocking, but something is definitely weird.
> > >From deep inside 416, oeb.ca times out on Firefox but works fine on Brave. Try switching browsers.
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > It seems that oeb.ca isn't accessible outside of Fordtopia (for
> > instance, from .au and .eu say).  Would anyone know if this is
> > intentional.
> > Andrew

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 at 11:35, William Kisin <uu at sunlight.ca> wrote:
>
> Using Firefox on my Android tablet:
>
> oeb.ca  fails
> oeb.ca/  fails
> http://oeb.ca  fails
> https://oeb.ca  works
>
> William (Willie) Kisin

I've managed to set up a server that behaved exactly the same.  This
is bad server administration from whoever is running the web server.

Interestingly, they've been clever enough to block the server
announcing its server type:

$ curl -I https://oeb.ca/
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:04:49 GMT
Server:
Location: https://www.oeb.ca/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

But not clever enough to manage the redirect from http: to https:.
Which means 99.9% of the population won't manage to get to this site
because just typing "oeb.ca" uses http: which should then redirect to
https: as it does on nearly every other server on the planet.  I
expect this will be fixed soon, although you never know.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

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Giles
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