Busted redirect

o hai guyz

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This just suddenly started happening last week even though I made no changes to anything. I have a domain on namecheap with a frame redirect to a php script on my server, which redirects to the offer. However, when I visit the domain, I get a blank white page with the following source (removed the actual url):
Code:
<html><head>
<title></title></head>
<!-- Redirection Services ASH01WRED07 H1 -->
<frameset rows='100%, *' frameborder=no framespacing=0 border=0>
<frame src="http://URL.COM/PHPSCRIPT.PHP" name=mainwindow frameborder=no framespacing=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0></frame>
</frameset>
<noframes>
<h2>Your browser does not support frames.  We recommend upgrading your browser.</h2><br><br>
<center>Click <a href="http://URL.COM/PHPSCRIPT.PHP">here</a> to enter the site.</center>
</noframes></html>

The php redirect doesn't load and it stays at the blank white page. But if I visit the redirect directly, it works perfectly and sends me to the offer like it should.

I only have the problem in Firefox, and it works fine in IE. I submitted a support request to both namecheap and my host and they said they couldn't reproduce the problem even when they used Firefox. I did see a significant drop in traffic around the beginning of last week though, which is what caused me to check the domains, so apparently a lot of people are having the issue with not being redirected.

Does anyone know what's going on?
 


This potentially sounds like a MIME setup problem with your webhost. Apache could be sending an incorrect file type to your browser and FireFox is interpreting it as a non-HTML page. Does it work in other browsers such as Chrome and Safari?
 
Actually I think it's a problem with the registrar because according to the source of the blank page it's not even reaching my server. I did try switching the redirect type from frame to not framed and it looks like it solved it. Someone suggested it could be an issue with Firefox security settings blocking a redirect within a frame.