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by halfjew222 2632 days ago
I don’t know if I’m whooshing here but I did get a chuckle out of this.

It’s not really redirecting you, aren’t you redirecting it? :P

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Well, arxiv-vanity.com uses a different TLD than arxiv.org, and their respective url schemes are completely different. arxiv-vanity.org is hosting a redirection site that interprets the arxiv.org path scheme and redirects you to the correct arxiv-vanity.com url.

I originally bought the arxiv-vanity.org domain and set it up as some rewrite rules on my personal caddy server. The owner of arxiv-vanity.com thought it was cool so we got everything transferred over to them now.