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A 302 question not of my doing....

[blend27]

So 2024 now, right.

Almost a 2 year old domain, we did everything White Hat, I know how. I registered the domain in a first place.

examle.com

Doing the Dev thing this evening I find several hits in the logs of exampleFAKEDOMAIN.tld as a REF spam, at least that what I am thinking.

Ref spam is ah...we can deal with it.

But a 302 when going to exampleFAKEDOMAIN.tld redirecting to our example.com?

Why is this done?

exampleFAKEDOMAIN.tld is of

Registrar: NameCheap, Inc.
Registered On: 2023-12-13

Redacted for Privacy type.

What gives?

[blend27]

team and the biz owner "have Spoken", there are no known oddities of why exampleFAKEDOMAIN.tld coluld be registered and fathered to more of 302'd to example.com.

Funny part, biz is registered in Florida, USA. Like that old update right?

[not2easy]

That makes no sense. Maybe you need a special error doc for 302?

[blend27]

I have no control over their 302 from their domain/server to our site.

I remember there was a mantra back in a day of poisoning domains reputation by having 302(Temporary redirect) from one domain to another. And that is my point. Why would someone do something like this in this day and age.

exampleFAKEDOMAIN.tld is a keyword rich domain that is almost identical to a business name of our company.

But Why 302?

The request came from tor-exit-4.all.de(212.21.66.0/24 TOR-Services/HostEurope) with a fake "cookie": "wordpress_test_cookie=\"WP+Cookie+check\".

We don't do WordPress.

[not2easy]

I realize this is not the Apache forum, but if you can see it in your logs, can't a "SetEnvIf Request_URI ^" help out?

[lucy24]

I have no control over their 302 from their domain/server to our site.

Now, wait. If you don't control redirects, what do you control? More to the point: If it's Apache, how do you know what domain was even requested? That isn't normally a part of access logs. Heck, logs don't even specify http vs https; typically those are two entirely separate log files.

:: noting how not2easy is craftily pointing everyone towards the Apache subforum ::

[blend27]

:: noting how not2easy is craftily pointing everyone towards the Apache subforum ::

I Agree.

I am on IIS(URL Rewrite 2 + ISAPI Rewrite) + ColdFusion on my end of things for this site.

How: Request Headers recorded for every single request. SO once I got the whiff of it I did the same on my PC, typed their domain in a Address Bar..

302.

WP Cookie is what included in their first request, not when I visit(I am not confused). Referral HTTP(not HTTPS) is also supplied. I know it is a bot at this point so to speak spilling Ref spam.

But why 302 for when Human(I am in 2024) hits the page.

[lucy24]

But why 302

I don't know about IIS, but on Apache the redirect default is always 302 unless you have expressly specified 301 or “Permanent”. So whoever coded this redirect didn't do an especially good job.

If you've come to recognize certain cookies as always associated with robots (I think it's part of the humanoid disguise, even if they're not very good at it), you can always block requests with those cookies.

[blend27]

IIS is on my side of things and we run our ships tight. I actually do not remember when was the last time i have used 302 on any of the sites.

302 is issued on their server to redirect to our site.

the really old thread: [webmasterworld.com...] (Feb 2005)

Again, why would someone register a new domain on 2023-12-13 and 302 it to ours?