[Cialug] Mediacom fscking with web access?

Mon Sep 7 18:01:10 CDT 2009

It seems that Mediacom has taken their "redirection" service to a new level.. Now 404s (depending on the site) also go to their damn search service!!! Can anyone else confirm this?

example: http://timesrepublican.com/thisdoesnotexist/

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Also...

jcbailey at hybrid:~$ telnet eztv.it 80
Trying 212.63.212.35...
Connected to eztv.it.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /shows/add/16167/ HTTP/1.1
Host: eztv.it
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090818 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5.3pre
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

<HTML><script>window.location='http://assist.mediacomcable.com/mediacomassist_pnf/dnsassist/main/?domain='+escape(window.location);</script><body>The Search Guide redirection service has been enabled to provide helpful searches from browser queries. You entered a non-existent url and your browser attempted to redirect you with Javascript. To enable this please update your browser preferences. <a href='http://search.mediacomcable.com/prefs.php'>To turn off this feature please click this here</a></body></HTML>

Connection closed by foreign host.

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jcbailey at hybrid:~$ telnet eztv.it 80
Trying 212.63.212.35...
Connected to eztv.it.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /shows/add/16167/ HTTP/1.1
Host: eztv.it

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 345
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:50:59 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.5.0

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
 <head>
  <title>404 - Not Found</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <h1>404 - Not Found</h1>
 </body>
</html>
Connection closed by foreign host.

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-Jon