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Strange page redirects

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:02 am
by Smyle
I notice strange page redirects at certain pages, eg. on this google archive URL, what redirects me to the main google site:
http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:AT ... =firefox-a

Same occured when I tried that with a new, clean portable Firefox 3.5.3 and the newest Noscript addon version 1.9.9.01
Other browsers, and Firefox without the enabled Noscript addon, didn't redirects those pages.

Re: Strange page redirects

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 3:27 am
by therube

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<noscript> <meta http-equiv=refresh content="0; URL=?note_id=81386964373&_fb_noscript=1" /> </noscript>
So they want you to view the page with JavaScript enabled.
And if you don't have JavaScript Allowed, they redirect you out.

Though if you ... Options | Advanced | Forbid META redirections inside <NOSCRIPT> elements, then you can keep JavaScript disabled & also view the page.

Re: Strange page redirects

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:36 am
by Smyle
Thank you for the test and solution!

I don't know whats happened meanwhile, just because I don't remember those redirects previously... :roll:

Re: Strange page redirects

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:26 pm
by therube
The page is set to redirect only if JavaScript has been disabled.

So if you used a "Firefox without the enabled Noscript addon", but instead manually disabled JavaScript (Tools | Options | something or the other), you would again get the same redirect.