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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: mollyfan on April 25, 2013, 12:38 am

Title: everytime i try to go to SR, tor tries adding www. before the URL
Post by: mollyfan on April 25, 2013, 12:38 am
what does that mean? its never done that to me before
Title: Re: everytime i try to go to SR, tor tries adding www. before the URL
Post by: unkn0wn_ on April 25, 2013, 01:12 am
Technical reason: their Apache server is configured to reroute the main domain to the www.domain... which is a common default setting for Apache... something entirely under their control. and nothing to be concerned about.

Laymen reason: "maintenance" http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=151563.0
Title: Re: everytime i try to go to SR, tor tries adding www. before the URL
Post by: wpwl on April 25, 2013, 01:18 am
That guy knows what hes talking about, Listen to him.

www.*.onion is fine..

*.*.com is bad.
Title: Re: everytime i try to go to SR, tor tries adding www. before the URL
Post by: mollyfan on April 25, 2013, 01:19 am
Quote from: unkn0wn_ on April 25, 2013, 01:12 am
Technical reason: their Apache server is configured to reroute the main domain to the www.domain... which is a common default setting for Apache... something entirely under their control. and nothing to be concerned about.

Laymen reason: "maintenance" http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=151563.0

thank you! +1 for you my friend!
Title: Re: everytime i try to go to SR, tor tries adding www. before the URL
Post by: SelfSovereignty on April 25, 2013, 02:05 am
Uhhh... no.  It's your browser: if you can't connect to the server, then it can't very well redirect you anywhere.

Put "about:config" (no quotes) in the address bar and hit enter.  That will bring you to the advanced options page of Firefox (Tor Browser is a version of Firefox).  Then search for "browser.fixup.alternate.prefix" and change it from "www" to be blank.

Fixed.
Title: Re: everytime i try to go to SR, tor tries adding www. before the URL
Post by: ripplingwalls on April 25, 2013, 02:43 am
Quote from: SelfSovereignty on April 25, 2013, 02:05 am
Uhhh... no.  It's your browser: if you can't connect to the server, then it can't very well redirect you anywhere.

Put "about:config" (no quotes) in the address bar and hit enter.  That will bring you to the advanced options page of Firefox (Tor Browser is a version of Firefox).  Then search for "browser.fixup.alternate.prefix" and change it from "www" to be blank.

Fixed.

did this and it still sends me to the unable to connect page....what could be wrong?
Title: Re: everytime i try to go to SR, tor tries adding www. before the URL
Post by: SelfSovereignty on April 25, 2013, 02:49 am
Er, the site is down, that's what's wrong.  I didn't mean to say it'll connect if you change that, just that it won't try to connect to "www.silkroadvb5piz3r.onion" anymore.

What's going on is your browser is trying to connect to Silk Road, but it's down.  So it tries adding "www." to the beginning of the address in case the user just forgot to add it or something.  Then when that second attempt fails, it just leaves the "www." at the beginning and doesn't remove it.

That's why it's trying to open that page: because it tries the one you enter first, but when that fails, it tries something else.  No real harm done.
Title: Re: everytime i try to go to SR, tor tries adding www. before the URL
Post by: l1llykins on April 25, 2013, 02:54 am
The site just came back up a short while ago so everyone is trying to log in right now. Give it a few hours ... or more.  8)
Title: Re: everytime i try to go to SR, tor tries adding www. before the URL
Post by: ripplingwalls on April 25, 2013, 03:19 am
thanks for clarifying that man, and damn i just hope its really up i keep refreshing and it wont let me thru. guess ill give it a rest and give it a go tomorrow