302's - how big a problem?
Having delved into this 302 hijack problem and by now found over 30 real 302s on my sites, for which I have successfully got Google to remove the offending distant pages from their index. To that extent I feel comfortable to assume that these are real 302s
So I went on to see how big a problem this was for other web sites. The big hotel groups are badly hit. It takes a long time to garner all the header data and ensure that they are real 302s. I by no way plumbed the depths of all InterContinental Hotel Groups sites. The same picture applies to virtually all the big hotel groups. Choice Hotels, Hilton Hotels, .... A selection of the InterContinental Hotels 302s can be seen in following any of these links.
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
Exhibit C
Exhibit D
Exhibit E
Exhibit F
Exhibit G
The BBC has a hijack from number 25 on the list when you query allinurl:www.bbc.co.uk and is for:-
www.allinitaly.com/goto.asp?link_no=22554
do a header search on that and you get
HTTP/1.1 302 Object moved Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:53:47 GMT Location: http://formez.excite.it/search/news/results?q=url.host:www.bbc.co.uk&l=en Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Length: 121 Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDSCBCBBQD=CPCCICABNKCOJHDMGPNKDIKL; path=/ Cache-control: privateIn fact it then transpires that there is a whole series of these sites that are ironically part of an "allin" series covering many countries and states. The USA series must have over 1 MILLION 302's in place.
A few samples of the sites and the 302 redirects are:-
http://www.alloftennessee.com/goto.asp?link_no=4496
for Ramada , there are over 50,000 302s for this state
http://www.allofgeorgia.com/goto.asp?link_no=9555
This is for an inn in Georgia. over 20000 302s here in Georgia
http://www.allinnewyork.com/goto.asp?link_no=11425
A Holiday Inn, of over 30,000 302s in New York.
And so on for all states and countries, apparently MILLIONs of 302's from this series of sites
People are even hijacking the British Government, the Foreign Office site has a number of 302s pointing to it, for example from these two sites, if you click the links below you will see they take you to the Foreign Office site, and the header checks both show 302. I cannot work out why this has been done, I would assume that there was a reason. Let me know if you can say why.
The Daily Telegraph (surely a mistake you say, the Daily Telegraph I ask you)
Responsible Travel
The only way to get something done, must be to publicise the problem, and bring it to as many peoples attention as possible. Make no mistake, this is a BIG problem.



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