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I only see redirects to an itunes search. curl -I http://appstore.com/startrekapp HTTP/1.1 302 Found Server: somethingNice. Date: Tue Jun 1 12:48:03 P

I only see redirects to an itunes search. curl -I http://appstore.com/startrekapp HTTP/1.1 302 Found Server: somethingNice. Date: Tue Jun 1 12:48:03 PDT 1999 PDT Referer: http://appstore.com/ Location: http://search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZContentLink.woa/wa/link?mt=8&path=apps%2fstartrekapp Content-type: text/html Content-length: 470 If you don't launch iTunes, it results in a bland/useless page in the browser. Lot more work to do before this could be considered a "vanity URL".

xinsight 14y ago
Update: If you add "www" to the URL, you get a 404. I'm having a hard time believing that this is run by Apple. The appear to be the registrar in the domain records - and the technical note clearly indicates they control appstore.com https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#qa/qa1633/_index.html https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#qa/qa1633/_index.ht... But it seems off-brand for the following reasons: * requests to the main domain uses an HTML redirect instead of an HTTP redirect (as if they didn't have permissions to configure the webserver properly) * the webserver name is hidden on normal requests (see above), but visible on 404 requests. The servers are "Apache/2.2.3 (PU_IAS)" and "Apache/2.2.15 (Oracle)" * the message on a request to appstore.com is infantile (and unstyled) "Bye Bye You shouldn't be here." Odd.
- interpol_p 14y ago
  I wouldn't overestimate Apple when it comes to web technologies. Everything they run — from iTunes Connect, developer.apple.com, to the App Store on iOS and Mac OS X, feels damn slow.
- nwh 14y ago
  > the message on a request to appstore.com is infantile (and unstyled) "Bye Bye You shouldn't be here." That's ridiculously unprofessional. Every other domain Apple owns redirects to apple.com/ if you go somewhere you shouldn't.
CyberDroiD 14y ago
Seems 100% perfect to me. If I want a link to open my apps in iTunes, I can give them this one, and it was created automatically: http://appstore.com/titanbaseproductions http://appstore.com/titanbaseproductions

xinsight 14y ago

Update: If you add "www" to the URL, you get a 404. I'm having a hard time believing that this is run by Apple. The appear to be the registrar in the domain records - and the technical note clearly indicates they control appstore.com https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#qa/qa1633/_index.html https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#qa/qa1633/_index.ht... But it seems off-brand for the following reasons: * requests to the main domain uses an HTML redirect instead of an HTTP redirect (as if they didn't have permissions to configure the webserver properly) * the webserver name is hidden on normal requests (see above), but visible on 404 requests. The servers are "Apache/2.2.3 (PU_IAS)" and "Apache/2.2.15 (Oracle)" * the message on a request to appstore.com is infantile (and unstyled) "Bye Bye You shouldn't be here." Odd.

interpol_p 14y ago
I wouldn't overestimate Apple when it comes to web technologies. Everything they run — from iTunes Connect, developer.apple.com, to the App Store on iOS and Mac OS X, feels damn slow.
nwh 14y ago
> the message on a request to appstore.com is infantile (and unstyled) "Bye Bye You shouldn't be here." That's ridiculously unprofessional. Every other domain Apple owns redirects to apple.com/ if you go somewhere you shouldn't.

CyberDroiD 14y ago

Seems 100% perfect to me. If I want a link to open my apps in iTunes, I can give them this one, and it was created automatically: http://appstore.com/titanbaseproductions http://appstore.com/titanbaseproductions