Interesting Ali Express web server behavior...

Sun Dec 10 07:15:32 UTC 2023

On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 09:55:31PM -0800,
 Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote 
 a message of 1136 lines which said:

> But why would AliExpress be redirecting to DDN space? Is this
> legitimate? Ali hoping to get away with squatting, or something
> else?

No idea. The IP address does not reply to HTTP requests, anyway. A
practical joke?

Note that this redirection takes places only when there is no
User-Agent field. If you say 'User-Agent: Mozilla', you get a proper
redirection, in my case to https://fr.aliexpress.com/.