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by al_borland 406 days ago
They actually left the original Space Jam site up. I think the developers knew its importance.

https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
5 comments
slyall 406 days ago
They managed to break https://www.spacejam.com/ though. It redirects to https://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net/ which has a bad cert and then goes into a redirect loop.

So broken after just 4 years

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genewitch 406 days ago
Hey give Disney a break they're a small company with only a few employees. Maybe tbe certifier is on vacation.
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backspace_ 406 days ago
Looney toons is a Warner Brothers property, not Disney.
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genewitch 406 days ago
I wasn't thinking. you are of course correct. My brain conflated because both are based in burbank. yeah, that's what i am going with.
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Thorrez 406 days ago
Hmm, I didn't get a redirect https://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net/
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a57721 406 days ago
http://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net/ responds with "HTTP 301, Location: https://www.spacejam.com/"
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Thorrez 405 days ago
Sorry, my previous comment omitted a word. I meant to say "I didn't get a redirect to https://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net/ ".

slyall claimed to be redirected to https://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net/ .

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shakna 406 days ago
I got the loop in both desktop Chrome and Firefox, as well as Android Chrome, Brave and Firefox (though these timed out after a few loops, unlike the desktop).

Were you maybe on Safari/iOS?

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Thorrez 405 days ago
I visited https://www.spacejam.com/ with Chrome on Windows, Firefox on Windows, and Chrome on Android. It didn't redirect for any of them.
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shakna 405 days ago
The loop most definitely exists. It's rather odd you're not seeing it. Everything I can use to talk to the server gets the 301/302 redirects.

Using yet another machine and curl:

    curl -vvv --insecure https://spacejam.com
     < HTTP/2 301 
     < date: Fri, 16 May 2025 10:45:08 GMT
     < content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
     < content-length: 233
     < location: https://www.spacejam.com/
     < server: nginx
     < cache-control: max-age=600
     < expires: Fri, 16 May 2025 10:51:34 GMT
     < 
     <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
     <html><head>
     <title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
     </head><body>
     <h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
     <p>The document has moved <a href="https://www.spacejam.com/">here</a>.</p>
     </body></html>
     ...
     \* Connection #0 to host www.spacejamanewlegacy.net left intact

    curl -vvv --insecure www.spacejamanewlegacy.net
     < HTTP/1.1 302 Found
     < Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 10:46:53 GMT
     < Server: Apache/2.4.62 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips
     < X-Powered-By: PHP/8.0.30
     < Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15768000
     < Upgrade: h2,h2c
     < Connection: Upgrade
     < Location: https://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net/
     < Transfer-Encoding: chunked
     < Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
     \* Connection #0 to host www.spacejam.com left intact
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Thorrez 404 days ago
Your request to https://spacejam.com is redirected to https://www.spacejam.com/ .

Your request to http://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net is redirected to https://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net/ .

You never tried making a request to https://www.spacejam.com/ .

Go to https://reqbin.com/ and enter https://spacejam.com . It gives 1 redirect (to https://www.spacejam.com/ ) then HTML.

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dag11 406 days ago
Oh man I forgot all about <frameset> and <frame> tags to create navigation. From the early days before we had dynamic sites or static site generators with templates, we had our browsers do our "templating" for us!
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dowager_dan99 406 days ago
frameset was THE basis for building manual-style resources back in the day!

* nav header; search (if you could figure out how to make it work)

* Table of contents

* main content pane

fun times!

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yawnxyz 406 days ago
I love how the new Space Jam website is ALSO in the 90's style! https://www.spacejam.com/2021/
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silisili 406 days ago
Nice! Never knew that. I wish more companies with popular sites did this. I'm sure it cost them about no money nor time to just shovel it off like this.
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Lammy 406 days ago
>look inside

>Google Analytics

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reddalo 406 days ago
They moved everything under /1996 when the new movie came out, and while doing so they broke some pages.
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