IE7 rewrites URL

We are experiencing the following scenario intermittently on our
apache powered web site.

Some users with Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) are getting redirected from
http://www.e-xyz.com to http://e-xyz.com.

This doesn't seem to be a browser hijack exploit.

After the URL gets redirected they get invalid certificate error as
the security certificate is issued for www.e-xyz.com.

Has anyone any clue why it might happen?

Thanks

souporpower@gmail.com schreef:
> We are experiencing the following scenario intermittently on our
> apache powered web site.
>
> Some users with Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) are getting redirected from
> http://www.e-xyz.com to http://e-xyz.com.
>
> This doesn't seem to be a browser hijack exploit.
>
> After the URL gets redirected they get invalid certificate error as
> the security certificate is issued for www.e-xyz.com.
>
> Has anyone any clue why it might happen?
>
> Thanks

no, because http://www.e-xyz.com perfectly redirects to
http://www.yahoo.co.jp/

--
Luuk

On Apr 15, 2:20*pm, Luuk <L...@invalid.lan> wrote:
> souporpo...@gmail.com schreef:
>
> > We are experiencing the following scenario intermittently on our
> > apache powered web site.
>
> > Some users with Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) are getting redirected from
> >http://www.e-xyz.comtohttp://e-xyz.com.
>
> > This doesn't seem to be a browser hijack exploit.
>
> > After the URL gets redirected they get invalid certificate error as
> > the security certificate is issued forwww.e-xyz.com.
>
> > Has anyone any clue why it might happen?
>
> > Thanks
>
> no, becausehttp://www.e-xyz.comperfectly redirects tohttp://www.yahoo.co.jp/
>
> --
> Luuk

Sorry, thought I was using a fake domain. But the post was still
relevant in the sense why would http://www.abcdefxyz.com redirect to
http://abcdefxyz.com?

Thanks

<souporpower@gmail.com> schreef in bericht
news:84019bea-a878-4904-a1ae-cce7069026a7@w5g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
>
> no, becausehttp://www.e-xyz.comperfectly redirects
> tohttp://www.yahoo.co.jp/
>
Sorry, thought I was using a fake domain. But the post was still
relevant in the sense why would http://www.abcdefxyz.com redirect to
http://abcdefxyz.com?

There might be 1001 ( that's decimal) reasons ...
To have anyone discriminate the ONE valid you have to expose the real site
name...

HansH

souporpower@gmail.com schreef:
> On Apr 15, 2:20 pm, Luuk <L...@invalid.lan> wrote:
>> souporpo...@gmail.com schreef:
>>
>>> We are experiencing the following scenario intermittently on our
>>> apache powered web site.
>>> Some users with Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) are getting redirected from
>>> http://www.e-xyz.comtohttp://e-xyz.com.
>>> This doesn't seem to be a browser hijack exploit.
>>> After the URL gets redirected they get invalid certificate error as
>>> the security certificate is issued forwww.e-xyz.com.
>>> Has anyone any clue why it might happen?
>>> Thanks
>> no, becausehttp://www.e-xyz.comperfectly redirects tohttp://www.yahoo.co.jp/
>>
>> --
>> Luuk
>
> Sorry, thought I was using a fake domain. But the post was still
> relevant in the sense why would http://www.abcdefxyz.com redirect to
> http://abcdefxyz.com?
>
> Thanks

this depends on how the web-server (apache) is configured.
(i think 'ServerName' in httpd.conf ?)

but 'normally' you better use example.com as an example (or fake) domain ;-)

--
Luuk

"Luuk" <Luuk@invalid.lan> wrote in message
news:388fd5-j0v.ln1@a62-251-88-195.adsl.xs4all.nl...
> souporpower@gmail.com schreef:
> > We are experiencing the following scenario intermittently on our
> > apache powered web site.
> >
> > Some users with Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) are getting redirected from
> > http://www.e-xyz.com to http://e-xyz.com.
> >
> > This doesn't seem to be a browser hijack exploit.
> >
> > After the URL gets redirected they get invalid certificate error as
> > the security certificate is issued for www.e-xyz.com.
> >
> > Has anyone any clue why it might happen?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> no, because http://www.e-xyz.com perfectly redirects to
> http://www.yahoo.co.jp/

That's what I'm seeing also.

On Apr 15, 3:32*pm, Luuk <L...@invalid.lan> wrote:
> souporpo...@gmail.com schreef:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Apr 15, 2:20 pm, Luuk <L...@invalid.lan> wrote:
> >> souporpo...@gmail.com schreef:
>
> >>> We are experiencing the following scenario intermittently on our
> >>> apache powered web site.
> >>> Some users with Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) are getting redirected from
> >>>http://www.e-xyz.comtohttp://e-xyz.com.
> >>> This doesn't seem to be a browser hijack exploit.
> >>> After the URL gets redirected they get invalid certificate error as
> >>> the security certificate is issued forwww.e-xyz.com.
> >>> Has anyone any clue why it might happen?
> >>> Thanks
> >> no, becausehttp://www.e-xyz.comperfectlyredirects tohttp://www.yahoo.co..jp/
>
> >> --
> >> Luuk
>
> > Sorry, thought I was using a fake domain. But the post was still
> > relevant in the sense why wouldhttp://www.abcdefxyz.comredirect to
> >http://abcdefxyz.com?
>
> > Thanks
>
> this depends on how the web-server (apache) is configured.
> (i think 'ServerName' in httpd.conf ?)
>
> but 'normally' you better use example.com as an example (or fake) domain ;-)
>
> --
> Luuk- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I was able to recreate the error by adding an entry to the Windows
hosts file without the www prefix. Looks like apache is squeaky
perfect.

Thanks for your kind help.