I guess pinging the master is probably not relevant as the mods and skins don't come from the master server, but do come from our web server.

I wonder if BT could be blocking http (rather than https) connections.

Yesterday I came across part of our site that is so old it uses only http. I wonder if BT allows you to connect to that from your browser.

Link: http://competition.lfs.net/

Quote from Scawen :

I guess pinging the master is probably not relevant as the mods and skins don't...

That link loaded for me and redirected instantly to lfs.net which is secure (https), so if there was a page on the end of it, it never appeared.

Oh that is strange, for me it stays on the competition pages and I can click around them.

I typed it in manually to two separate browsers as well, Brave and Edge, both loaded https://www.lfs.net

Quote from Scawen :

Oh that is strange, for me it stays on the competition pages and I can click around them.

On LFS Discord, Flame reported that the link works for him properly as well, but for all the others, it doesn't work and it redirects instead. We did think about that does the fact that Flame is a moderator and you are admin of the site grants you the access for that page. Could it be possible that the page is restricted and all non-moderator/admin users cannot access it?

In any case, we were able to look the site on web archive. Link to that is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20121019081926/http://competition.lfs.net/

OK, we get that in Edge too. In Firefox it goes where it's supposed to. So I don't think this test tells us much so far. My son got that result and he is not a moderator.

My hypothesis at the moment is that redirect is browser related and doesn't shed any light on Zero7's mod download issue.

Scawen, I did test that on Tor-browser, and when I used the non-secure http-protocol (aka http:// site), it did work correctly for me after the browser gave me a warning that my connection is not secure. However, the very instant I allowed to use HTTPS-connection on this site on browser settings, it redirected me to https://lfs.net

Okay, I managed to get it working on Chrome. Here's what I did, and I followed that first answer displayed there: https://superuser.com/questions/1400200/chrome-persistently-redirecting-to-https-for-http-site

Now, http://competition.lfs.net does indeed lead me to that page on Chrome and doesn't redirect

Oh, and by the way, Ctrl+H doesn't clear cache, but you can clear cache of lfs.net when you manage the site settings for the browser

EDIT: And I also just installed Firefox and it works for me on both normal and private modes. However, I just installed it so it doesn't have any cache. Could there be some shared HTTPS redirect cache on these pages?

As Cloudflare is inbetween everything it might result in unexplainable behaviour. Maybe something is whitelisted in the Cloudflare webpanel config, no idea. Its doing a HTTP 301 redirect, so its Cloudflare initiated (or webserver related but we can't "see" that due to Cloudflare).