Ask HN: Why does CamelCamelCamel search redirect to Project Gutenberg?
The search box on the website (https://camelcamelcamel.com) works fine but directly visiting the search URL sends you to a Cloudfront cache of Project Gutenberg (specifically The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes).
Playing with it via curl, seems like omitting the Referer header causes it:
Any ideas what's going on? Maybe they were being web scraped live via AJAX and put in a referrer check to break things? Problem with that is that it broke my quick search links...
Playing with it via curl, seems like omitting the Referer header causes it:
This goes to Gutenberg:
This doesn't: Any ideas what's going on? Maybe they were being web scraped live via AJAX and put in a referrer check to break things? Problem with that is that it broke my quick search links...