Unnecessary redirections of website

[stefanos82]

Two days ago a Hacker News user reported a problematic behavior for the website and indeed was behaving weird.

Today, out of curiosity I decided to test it via curl and can see unnecessary redirections that could be resolved to https://www.boost.org/.

Here is what I currently see via terminal:

stefanos@debian:~ $ curl -IL http://boost.org
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 22:05:27 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
Location: https://boost.org/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 22:05:29 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
Location: http://www.boost.org/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 22:05:29 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
Location: https://www.boost.org/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 22:05:31 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

[vinniefalco]

Sam says this is not a problem in practice, and the old site is going away. We also do not have access to change the DNS entries. https://original.boost.org does not have these redirects, suggesting it is fixed with a DNS adjustment.