Interesting Ali Express web server behavior...

Sun Dec 10 22:17:49 UTC 2023

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> On Dec 10, 2023, at 2:17 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:
> 
> 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/.

My guess would be they’re doing this to redirect unwanted / non-legitimate traffic away. 