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Interestingly, this page is intercepted by my router which then just sends me a redirect to one of its settings pages. Odd.
by slice-beans 10y ago
Interestingly, this page is intercepted by my router which then just sends me a redirect to one of its settings pages. Odd.
- alanh 10y agoWell now, that is interesting… deep packet inspection? or just a truly insane bug? What router is it?
- slice-beans 10y agoHere's the request and response from router: http://pastebin.com/e7rxLsGJ http://pastebin.com/e7rxLsGJ The router itself is a BT Internet (UK) branded one. Not sure of the exact model but I'll try to find out...
- fosk 10y agoBesides the model number, can you also tell us the firmware version?
- slice-beans 10y agoBT Home Hub 5 (Type A) Software version 4.7.5.1.83.8.204.1.11 But, false alarm anyway, nothing interesting is happening. The firmware had updated and reset parental control settings on the router. The domain is on some blacklist apparently so it was redirecting to a page to finalise parental control preferences. Sorry it wasn't any more interesting than that. Edit: the reason it took me a while to figure this out was that the settings page it was redirecting to was nothing to do with parental controls!
- rad_gruchalski 10y agoThe HomeHub 5 is a Thomson (Technicolor) router, if I remember correctly.
- neom 10y agoSo how did you figure it out?
- slice-beans 10y agoI visited some other black listed sites <.< >.> and discovered the pattern, then dug around in the router settings to see what had changed. Disabling parental controls sorted it and I can now see the squirrel/chipmunk/unidentified rodent. Lesson learned: just use a VPN.
- Olap84 10y agoaaisp - your life just became simpler.
- Jaruzel 10y ago> I visited some other black listed sites <.< >.> Is that an ASCII representation of what I think it is? (a well known .cx site)
- sundarurfriend 10y agoI saw it as just a 'shifty-eyes' emoticon, but then again I don't know of said .cx-site so I maybe missing it.
- slice-beans 10y agoIt was shifty eyes. But good imagination skills +1
- detaro 10y agoI found some references online to something called "Smart Setup", which you can apparently turn of under Advanced Settings -> Home Network -> Smart Setup, but no idea what it actually does and why it intercepts random requests...
- alanh 10y ago"Deployed on one out of four residential gateways globally, Cisco Videoscape OpenRG is the industry's most widely used residential gateway software." -- Cisco At least we know a little about the software issuing this redirect!
- gcb0 10y agothe fact that it encodes "/" on a part of the url in a parameter, but not on another is a very good indication that whatever this 'feature' is doing is badly thought out and the implementation was done by the intern.
- SmellyGeekBoy 10y agoThis pretty much describes the entire BT HomeHub firmware, to be honest.
- jswny 10y agoThis intrigues me. I wonder why the router would be meddling in such affairs.
- Buge 10y agoAnother reason to use https, if you don't want routers filtering your website's content.
- chirau 10y agoIt probably validates Content-Type and X-Content-Type-Options