Hello everyone!
I have a rather specific question related to dial-up ppp-connections, the provider used for that and HTML.
I do not know much about HTML so I was not able to figure this out myself - any help or hints are much appreciated!
Since this is rather long - here is the question it all boils down to:
What is causing this annoying redirection of any page first loaded --> to the providers homepage?
The problem is this:
I use dial-up ppp-connections to connect to internet, using different providers - depending on the time of day.
The prices per minute are different depending on which number you use at which time of the day - thats why I have configured about 8 different connections to dial in at the lowest rate at a given time.
There is a rather strange and annoying behavior when using one specific provider:
The first page I request using this provider will ALWAYS be changed to this providers homepage - no matter, what page I request - even an invalid one will be redirected to this providers homepage.
What is REALLY annoying - if I try to reload that page - i.e. the
http://www.linuxquestions.org - it will STILL be redirected - effectively making it impossible for me to ever visit this site.
I live in Germany and the providers homepage is:
http://www.meome.de - do not worry - if you are coming in to this site via _any_ other provider or way, this will not happen to you!
That is why it could be, that only Germans could be able to help - because trying to dial in from outside Germany would be rather expensive...
I have the following setup:
- wwwoffle (a simple proxy-server) is running to make offline browsing of all the webpages I have visited possible - and this works very well and is - by the way - one of the most useful programs I ever installed...(the problem is for SURE not related to online/offline modes !)
- my browser is connecting to this proxy when getting something off the net - so: the browsers own cache for pages is disabled - to avoid caching the same page twice and introducing problems this way as well as making it slower
-I have tried to disable javascript in the browser (to disable any script in the offending homepage which could possibly cause this) - but was not successful - the provider is still changing the first page I call when I dialed in throug one of his own numbers.
- the browser used for browsing is not making any difference - I have Mozilla 1.7b / Epiphany / Firefox-0.9.1 but only ever use Firefox
which is really a good one!
- at this time, I go around this problem, by using caution: I always request and load this providers homepage first - only after that I can do whatever I wanted to do and it will work...
But sometimes - when I forgot to do this - and requested Google or LQ or ebay or whatever first, this page is effectively gone fore me!
To cure this situation I have to remove the site from the cache of my proxy-server (wwwoffle).
If I was not using a proxy, this would be done by just cleaning the browser-cache - which does the same thing. (I tried this by connecting not trough the proxy but directly to internet).
But this is not a real solution - I want to be able to use the proxy-cache - and if it only was to look up the current price per minute without connecting to the net.
This is the reason, why I do not want to just stop my proxy caching this providers homepage - which could be done easily.
So here is my question again: What is (could be) causing this annoying redirection of any page first loaded --> to the providers homepage?
Thanks for staying with me till now!