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Activation links are 404

  • 01-02-2013 6:49pm
    #1
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,751 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    So I finally got an example, and it's really 404


    curl -I "https://www.boards.ie/auth/resendVerification?userid=617958"
    HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
    Content-Type: text/html
    Server: Lighthttpd
    X-Powered-By: PHP
    X-Varnish-Cacheable: Yes
    Content-Length: 345
    Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:47:11 GMT
    X-Varnish: 340626238
    Age: 0
    Via: 1.1 varnish
    Connection: keep-alive
    X-Varnish-Cache-Result: Miss


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  • #2
    Boards.ie: Danny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Danny


    Where was this link gotten from?


  • #3
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,751 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    From the user who tried to activate with it:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056870797


  • #4
    Boards.ie: Neil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Neil


    we'll need to find out where the user found the link with the 'Verificiation' capitalised. Our urls are case sensitive, see the following - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/prOfile.php?do=appearancesettings

    now sure they should be maybe getting a nicer 404 than the one they are getting but establishing where we *might* have typo'd the link somewhere will help fix it for others.


  • #5
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,751 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    I'm under the impression it was from the announcement banner that appears at the top. This isn't an isolated case either, there's been at least 5 reports of this recently.


  • #6
    Boards.ie: Danny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Danny


    That is a backend URL, a private URL - this is why cURLing it fails; no public facing IP is able to access it and no public facing IP should ever be given it.

    So I need to know the source of the link, as in the one the user clicked on.


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  • #7
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,751 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Too late then, the specific user in question got activated through the older formatted URL I provided. It would have come from the announcement that appears for unactivated users.


  • #8
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,751 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    There's a fresh one, if you want to follow up:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056883249


  • #9
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,751 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    This was the link in the announcement:

    http://www.boards.ie/auth/resendverification/438479

    And it's a 302 to a 404 link:

    curl -I http://www.boards.ie/auth/resendverification/438479 -L
    HTTP/1.1 302 Found
    Location: https://www.boards.ie/auth/resendVerification?userid=438479
    Content-type: text/html
    Server: Lighthttpd
    X-Powered-By: PHP
    X-Varnish-Cacheable: Yes
    Content-Length: 0
    Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:22:12 GMT
    X-Varnish: 296242360 296230604
    Age: 52
    Via: 1.1 varnish
    Connection: keep-alive
    X-Varnish-Cache-Result: Hit

    HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
    Content-Type: text/html
    Server: Lighthttpd
    X-Powered-By: PHP
    X-Varnish-Cacheable: Yes
    Content-Length: 345
    Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:22:12 GMT
    X-Varnish: 296242430
    Age: 0
    Via: 1.1 varnish
    Connection: keep-alive
    X-Varnish-Cache-Result: Miss


  • #10
    Boards.ie: Danny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Danny


    That link should be https:// and not http:// - I've changed the notice so it should be fine to get the user to click on it again.

    We'll get a fix for the rewrite from http to https in as soon as we can

    Thanks

    Danny


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