::shakes fist::
Hilariously, I bet it’s because their Active Directory domain is the same as their public domain, and it becomes a massive pain in the ass to hostname the root domain. Yes, externally you can do it just fine, but then it’s not consistent internally on their private network.
One solution is you run IIS (or any other web server) purely as a permanent redirect for the internal host, but it would then need to run on each domain controller which brings its own set of issues.
IIS
Oh god
Lol oh I never said it’s a good solution. The worst part isn’t running IIS, it’s running IIS on a domain controller. The better option is using a different domain for AD than your web domain, as long as it’s a publicly registered domain for certificate purposes.
Is the DMV a .com or a .gov? Because it should be a dot gov — but Texas has stupidly put some of their government websites on dot coms.
It’s almost as if TLDs are completely arbitrary.
This is anarchy!
It’s almost as if ICANN doesn’t know what the fuck they’re doing anymore!
The secret is ICANN never has known what the fuck they are doing.
ICANNT
My state has dot org for some agencies, dot gov for some, and dot state dot (state) dot us.
They probably change them to .com as they privatize them
It opens on my cell phone, but my desktop gives me a static image with no links.
When I try going to txdmv.gov, I don’t get the same server, but I do go to a machine that http-redirects my browser to www.txdmv.gov.
$ wget http://txdmv.gov/ --2024-04-10 17:01:26-- http://txdmv.gov/ Resolving txdmv.gov (txdmv.gov)... 168.44.227.138 Connecting to txdmv.gov (txdmv.gov)|168.44.227.138|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: https://www.txdmv.gov [following] --2024-04-10 17:01:26-- https://www.txdmv.gov/ Resolving www.txdmv.gov (www.txdmv.gov)... 3.222.136.66, 18.234.22.91 Connecting to www.txdmv.gov (www.txdmv.gov)|3.222.136.66|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: ‘index.html’ index.html [ <=> ] 203.91K 986KB/s in 0.2s 2024-04-10 17:01:27 (986 KB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [208802] $EDIT: Ah, apparently it redirects http://txdmv.gov/, but not https://txdmv.gov/.
considers
Based on @malloc@lemmy.world’s comment, maybe some browsers interpret a bare hostname without protocol specifier as an http address, and some as an https address.
Holy shit. This is really good to know… Thanks
maybe some browsers interpret a bare hostname without protocol specifier as an http address, and some as an https address.
And if you have a browser that does the former I would suggest finding a better one soon. The internet is moving away from unencrypted HTTP, a browser that doesn’t default to HTTPS nowadays is pretty strange.
While I do mostly agree with your statement, it’s incredibly annoying when I type in a local IP for my router or server and it automatically gets turned into https.
huh? I just entered txdmv.gov and it worked just fine. It redirected to www. but otherwise not required from end user
Edit: on mobile it’s broken … (txdmv.gov does not redirect. Only loads a banner. Have to type www.txdmv.gov)
I’m on mobile browsing on Firefox and it redirected fine to the full site
It redirects me to the https site too, but https://txdmv.gov shows a different site than https://www.txdmv.gov? Lol, what is going on.
This is great… lol. It redirects me on mobile but not desktop…
But it’s the last www site left, right?
If you find the relevant department and start harassing them on Twitter and other socials at least once a day they will eventually fix it. This has happened before with other departments and security issues. My record is eight days.
Thankfully I don’t live there, so it’s only my problem once.
So you’re whining because this one website makes you do what everyone’s in the 90s had to do so the time? Well everyone smart enough to realize that being tech savvy is a good idea. A lot of people I went to HS now have a Facebook account at most and it’s funny and pathetic.
