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Posted August 27, 2012
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reaver894: Lol thats right out of 1984. Wonder who read it and though to use the name.
You serious? I know we have a "Don't mention the war" policy, but... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Ministry_of_Information
Posted August 27, 2012
It seems this has hit other sites too. There's a thread on the World of Warcraft forums about UK users not being able to connect, and a few other sites seem to have been affected.

I wonder the LINX or Cleanfeed picked up the Idiot Ball and messed stuff up. I've seen screwups like this before but none quite as big.
Posted August 27, 2012
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reaver894: Lol thats right out of 1984. Wonder who read it and though to use the name.
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wpegg: You serious? I know we have a "Don't mention the war" policy, but... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Ministry_of_Information
did not know that >.>
Posted August 27, 2012
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Firek: While it looks like the issue is over, please let me know if any of you still experience these issues. I will send e-mails to everyone who experienced this issue, just in case.

Our IT folk are currently investigating this and the more we know about the scope of the issue, the better.
Ah good service eh! :P
Posted August 27, 2012
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mecirt: I've been hitting the problem as well - turned out, I had the https URL bookmarked, and apparently that one no longer works. http://www.gog.com/ works fine, https://www.gog.com/ does not (and I -think- it used to, but no guarantees).
That's a different issue, related to a recent-ish change to our infrastructure. Unfortunately a redirect from http://www.gog.com/ isn't possible, as far as I'm informed.
The "fun" starts in Firefox, which, when given a choice, will always point you to the last used https:// address when trying to enter a site. For your safety, of course. So if you open the browser, type in "gog.com" and hit Enter, it will gloriously redirect you to the now-defunct address. Unless you type in www.gog.com, at least.


Also, our IT guys checked our stats and there was no real impact on our traffic from the UK area. Based on the e-mail responses I've gotten so far, there's no common ground as far as locations and ISPs are concerned. Our investigation will likely show this all resulted from a server issue, or maintenance we were not aware of.
Posted August 27, 2012
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mecirt: I've been hitting the problem as well - turned out, I had the https URL bookmarked, and apparently that one no longer works. http://www.gog.com/ works fine, https://www.gog.com/ does not (and I -think- it used to, but no guarantees).
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Firek: That's a different issue, related to a recent-ish change to our infrastructure. Unfortunately a redirect from http://www.gog.com/ isn't possible, as far as I'm informed.
The "fun" starts in Firefox, which, when given a choice, will always point you to the last used https:// address when trying to enter a site. For your safety, of course. So if you open the browser, type in "gog.com" and hit Enter, it will gloriously redirect you to the now-defunct address. Unless you type in www.gog.com, at least.


Also, our IT guys checked our stats and there was no real impact on our traffic from the UK area. Based on the e-mail responses I've gotten so far, there's no common ground as far as locations and ISPs are concerned. Our investigation will likely show this all resulted from a server issue, or maintenance we were not aware of.
Good to hear that you guys looked into it though, even though there were possibly dozens if not hundreds of potential causes if any at all, the interwebs be a crabby old bitch when they choose to
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