On 2010-05-04 12:45:03 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> Our legal counsel sent me an email admiring the team's fast response,
> and a helpful email we got from a community member to get Red Hat
> Legal in touch with the folks at Hostgator.
>
> Legal did run into one unexpected problem, which is that the security
> folks at Hostgator get the expected "This is a spam site" message, so
> they can't view the problem for themselves. (I think that's partly
> why the fast response was so impressive.) Is there a way for a viewer
> to forcibly see the original page content so that discussion with
> Hostgator can proceed? Or would we need to lift the block?
In my email to spot, I sent a screenshot taken with
browsershots.com:
http://api.browsershots.org/png/original/69/69405a6d33d52c163c468898edf8a...
We can also remove the redirect if they'd like to see it.
> Alternately, are there any legitimate sites that we know are blocked
> by the redirect? I would expect not, else you might have chosen not
> to do one, but if so, that would also help in those discussions.
I don't think so - Mike put in a block based on referers containing
fedorproject, so only typo-squatting sites should be affected :-)
I can also always disable the redirect if it's important for them to
actually see what is going on. Alternatively you can send them here: