From: wayne+blog@waynewerner.com To: everyone.everywhere.all.at.once Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:17:52 -0500 Subject: Why Didn't My Page Load?
My page, it didn't load... why not?
I was recently faced with some weird behavior.
https://www.example.com loaded, but https://example.com did not. It just spun and spun and spun. But http://example.com did!
So... what's going on here?
Well a lil' curl -v was helpful tracking down the issue. example.com resolved to a different IP address from www.example.com. And then I saw it:
< X-Served-By: Namecheap URL Forward
Ah-hah! Turned out I had an HTTP redirect in my Namecheap DNS. What was
happening is when https://example.com ran it was trying to make the TLS
connection, but failed to negotiate.
Adding an @ entry to my DNS and waiting for the TTL to expire worked, though!
~Wayne