posted on May 30, 2001 10:53:42 AM new
I travel about twice a year and always use Northwest Airlines. I go to there website often to find flights and compare which is the best flight and price. A few days ago I typed in www.nwa.com and ended up at priceline. com. The page it took me to was name your price for a flight and my destination. I believe this also caused my computer to freeze up. I reported this to NWA and they did not believe me. They said perhaps I had typed in priceline. I emailed them back and told them it was not my mistake, that I never go to priceline. That perhaps priceline was intercepting their site every so often. I mean perhaps it was some type of mistake. But I find it funny since the nwa website is to find flights and price that priceline would take me to the same page for flights and price. Since going back to nwa website it has not happened again. Is it possible to intercept someone's site?
posted on May 30, 2001 11:04:14 AM new
Also I just went to priceline.com and it took me to there home page. When I clicked on the link for airline it took me to the page for name your price and destination. The same page I was complaining about to nwa. I also noticed that the url for that page is very long and there is no way I could have know the url for that particular page.
posted on May 30, 2001 12:26:48 PM new
I have went to the nwa quite a few times since it happened and was taken to nwa. It was only that time it happened. I know that I checked priceline out about a year ago. Since then I have not been to their website. Except what happened the other day.
posted on May 31, 2001 07:12:32 AM new
Yes, it is possible to redirect people to a different website like you descibed. It does require some hacking and it has been done before. A few years ago, some hackers did. I was going to the E! network webpage at www.eonline.com and for some reason ended up at the erotica online webpage. Thought maybe it was a Freudian slip or something so I tried it again and went back to that webpage. The redirect does not last that long, usually a few hours before the system apparently fixes it itself.
