"Classic"? Its antiquated. With the proper edge servers, it is completely unnecessary to "redirect" to different host names for load balancing. IBM's practice of doing this is lame, and demonstrates that they don't know how to run a large scale web site.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:30 PM, George Henke <gahe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds like classic internet redirection spoofing. > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Chase, John <jch...@ussco.com> wrote: > > > Hi, All, > > > > Apparently "somebody" at IBM is monkeying with the IBMLINK URI. When I > > try to go there via www.ibm.com/ibmlink my request gets redirected to > > www-304bluecoat.ibm.com/. . . instead of www-304.ibm.com/. . . . > > Firefox dutifully warns me: > > > > www-304bluecoat.ibm.com uses an invalid security certificate. > > > > The certificate is only valid for www-304.ibm.com > > > > Anybody know "for sure" whether this "bluecoat" URI is the "real deal"? > > > > TIA, > > > > -jc- > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > > > > > -- > George Henke > (C) 845 401 5614 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
