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The practice has been controversial since ISP redirect pages were introduced in 2006. [2] ISP redirects can fool the ping networking utility. Ping may falsely report that a website is responsive when in truth it is unavailable but redirected. [3] ISP redirects also interfere with web archiving tools like ArchiveTeam Warrior [4]
If a redirect target is not sufficiently validated by a web application, an attacker can make a web application redirect to an arbitrary website. This vulnerability is known as an open-redirect vulnerability. [26] [27] In certain cases when an open redirect occurs as part of an authentication flow, the vulnerability is known as a covert redirect.
DNS hijacking, DNS poisoning, or DNS redirection is the practice of subverting the resolution of Domain Name System (DNS) queries. [1] This can be achieved by malware that overrides a computer's TCP/IP configuration to point at a rogue DNS server under the control of an attacker, or through modifying the behaviour of a trusted DNS server so that it does not comply with internet standards.
The latter case where the user is redirected to another destination would be considered DNS Spoofing, otherwise known as "DNS Poisoning". [3] DNS blocking can be applied to individual servers/IP address, or entire blocks of IP addresses for multiple reasons. Some public DNS Resolvers, like Quad9 and CleanBrowsing, offer filters as part of their ...
When you or another editor moves a page, the old page name doesn't go away. Instead, it becomes a redirect page (or simply a redirect). That's good—other pages in Wikipedia are probably linked to the old name, and the redirect means the links on those other pages still work. They take the reader to the page in its new location.
Examples of this are "rickrolling", and redirecting to shock sites, or to affiliate websites. The short URL can allow blocked URLs to be accessed, bypassing site blocklists; this facilitates redirection of a user to blocked scam pages or pages containing malware or XSS attacks. TinyURL tries to disable spam-related links from redirecting. [33]
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Occasionally this caching scheme goes awry (e.g. the browser insists on showing out-of-date content) making it necessary to bypass the cache, thus forcing your browser to re-download a web page's complete, up-to-date content. This is sometimes referred to as a "hard refresh", "cache refresh", or "uncached reload".