[Cialug] Mediacom fscking with web access?

[Aaron Jensen]

Using a Qwest connection at work and have noticed lately that they are  
running an identical service.

http://webhelp.qwest.net/

On Sep 8, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Jonathan C. Bailey wrote:

> I think if the site does a 302 redirect to their 404 page, then it  
> doesn't mess with it. But Apache's built in 404 is/was known to  
> trigger it.
>
> -Jon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Nuzum" <newz at bearfruit.org>
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 1:42:49 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada  
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> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Mediacom fscking with web access?
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>
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Jonathan C. Bailey < jbailey at co.marshall.ia.us 
>  > wrote:
>
>
> I think that sums up their thought process... I can see the DNS  
> redirects, but I don't see how it could *ever* be a good idea to  
> mess with 404s ("I went to see billy bob's Myspace page and I got a  
> damn Mediacom screen! Myspace is broken! asdhioqwerhio132e@!3!1!!!!").
>
>
> -Jon
>
> This is what I was getting at before. Will it show a site's custom  
> 404 page if one exists and only show the mediacom 404 page if the  
> site just sends a plain default 404 page? Does it do a redirect when  
> it shows a 404 page or does it appear that the mediacom page is  
> showing up in the site's domain?
>
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