Late last week, I was having a problem with RCN hijacking my mistyped URLs. I was finally able to get them fixed! This post has two different distinct topics; the situation and how the problem was solved. In the near future I will post a new entry analyzing RCN’s business practices.
*Update – December 31st 2009*
I added a symptoms section and two guaranteed solutions at the bottom of this post.
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I had a problem with my MacBook running Mac OSX 10.5 where FireFox 3 would report to the server that I was using a mobile platform. The server would then redirect me to their mobile page. This made it difficult to brows PayPal.com and Schwab.com (among others) because they were always taking me to their mobile or wireless pages, no matter what URL I went to. Turns out I had a plug-in to “enable WML browsing”. I deleted the plug-in and the problem went away!
Symptoms
Firefox redirects to mobile versions of webpages.
Solution
Remove/disable a plug-in that enables WML browsing.
