Website Redirect?

[Confused in California]

Um, ok. On two separate computers, both running Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit, this particular issue has manifest. It happens regardless of browser (those tested are: IE8, Firefox 4.0 and Chrome 11).

The behaviour:

When entering the website as: www.paizo.com, we are immediately redirected to: http://paizo.com/paizoGames

When entering the website as: paizo.com the page loads normally to paizo.com.

This has been ongoing for several days and is... bewildering.

Not sure if it's intentional, but I thought to bring it to the attention of the powers that be.

Sincerely,
Confused in California

[Cpt_kirstov]

hmm... didn't notice, but it is happening for me too...

[Kajehase]

I'm noticing the same happening with Safari, though not with Explorer (8).

[David Fryer]

I noticed the same problem but did not say anything because I figured it was just me.

[Calixymenthillian]

I get this when I load the site on my mobile phone, but on my main machine it works normally. Probably related, I also only get access to the Gamer Connection sub-forum from my phone.

[Robert Little]

It is happening to me as well, on Firefox 4 on my desktop PC.

[Kellendil]

Happens to me as well, on 3 different computers i use. (work, laptop and home)

Also the messageboards link at paizo.com/paizoGames doesn't work :)

[Helaman]

Kellendil wrote:

Happens to me as well, on 3 different computers i use. (work, laptop and home)

Also the messageboards link at paizo.com/paizoGames doesn't work :)

Heck, click on message boards and you get a new page that is very very abbreviated in its options and doesn't include Pathfinder etc. You have to click on gaming (iirc) to get to the old selection.

[KaeYoss]

Dear Confused in California,

I think that was mentioned before. I don't have links to the old threads, but that's the way the addresses are set up (www.paizo.com is not the same as paizo.com! It's just that most sites are set up to redirect you from one to the other, so it seems that it doesn't matter if you include the www - because most of the time, for all practical purposes, it really doesn't).

I don't know if it's intentional, but it's not a browser problem.

In fact, if the browser doesn't redirect you like that, the browser is doing it wrong.

Yours sincerely,
Sagacious in Saarland.

[Fangdelicious]

I resolved the problem by deleting my bookmark for Paizo.com in Firefox, going to the main Paizo page, and creating a new bookmark. I haven't had the issue since.

The bookmarks look identical, but for some reason, the old one liked to go to the games page ::shrug::

[Kellendil]

as mentioned earlyer

http://paizo.com goes to paizo.com
and
http://www.paizo.com goes to the games page.

[Gary Teter]

This should be fixed now. Any request to www.paizo.com should be redirected to paizo.com, not the Paizo Games page.

[Confused in California]

Gary Teter wrote:

This should be fixed now. Any request to www.paizo.com should be redirected to paizo.com, not the Paizo Games page.

Wow. I wish all support organizations were as awesome as Paizo's. Great fix and FAST! Thanks, GT!

[Vic Wertz]

"www" is so 20th Century.

[Kellendil]

True!
I type p, hit enter and I'm here ;)

[KaeYoss]

Kellendil wrote:

True!

I type p, hit enter and I'm here ;)

On Opera, the Paizo site is on my speed dial.

On Firefox, the forums are my starting page (not using firefox for anything other than the paizo boards and the occasional webpage that doesn't work correctly on Opera. Damn Opera 11!)