Activation links are 404

Spear

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

Boards.ie: Danny

Where was this link gotten from?

Spear

From the user who tried to activate with it:

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Spear

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

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

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

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