Redirected to compute.amazonaws.com - nginx

I'm running nginx on a basic AWS EC2 instance.
My nginx http server block looks like this:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80;
# TLS redirect
server_name ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.rr-rrrr-r.compute.amazonaws.com;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
My https server block works fine, so when I enter:
https://ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.rr-rrrr-r.compute.amazonaws.com
In my browser, everything works, but when I enter:
http://ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.rr-rrrr-r.compute.amazonaws.com (http, not https)
I get redirected to
https://compute.amazonaws.com
Is there any obvious reason for this? Thanks in advance.
Edit with curl
[ec2-user#ip-xxx-xx-xx-xxx ~]$ curl -v http://ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.rr-rrrr-r.compute.amazonaws.com
* Rebuilt URL to: http://ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.rr-rrrr-r.compute.amazonaws.com/
* Trying 172.31.14.246...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.rr-rrrr-r.compute.amazonaws.com (xxx.xx.xx.xxx) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.rr-rrrr-r.compute.amazonaws.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.51.0
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Server: nginx/1.10.2
< Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 22:09:39 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html
< Content-Length: 185
< Connection: keep-alive
< Location: https://ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.rr-rrrr-r.compute.amazonaws.com
<
<html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.10.2</center>
</body>
</html>
* Curl_http_done: called premature == 0
* Connection #0 to host ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.rr-rrrr-r.compute.amazonaws.com left intact

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Here is the output of curl -v
* Trying A.B.C.D:5601...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to A.B.C.D port 5601 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: A.B.C.D:5601
> User-Agent: curl/7.68.0
> Accept: */*
>
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< location: /spaces/enter
< x-content-type-options: nosniff
< referrer-policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade
< cache-control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
< content-length: 0
< Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 03:01:11 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< Keep-Alive: timeout=120
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}
http {
server {
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* Trying 192.168.33.100...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to vm (192.168.33.100) port 80 (#0)
> POST /post HTTP/1.1
> Host: vm
> User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 51337
> Expect: 100-continue
> Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------67df5f3ef06561a5
>
< HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
< Server: openresty/1.11.2.2
< Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:58:55 GMT
< Content-Type: text/plain
< Content-Length: 23
< Connection: close
<
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I've noticed a whole bunch of Referer links like t.co/oPQO7Xdz in my access_log files, but no other URL shorteners ever show up. Why?
The URL shorteners never show up because HTTP 301 Moved Permanently et al redirects in HTTP are not designed to influence the Referer HTTP Request Header (apparently, not even if the header is blank, potentially due to the fact that it'll cause inconsistency in behaviour otherwise).
However, Twitter does not issue 301 Moved Permanently redirects with its t.co service if it sees what it deems is a popular desktop or mobile User-Agent. As the redirect is thus done outside of the HTTP stack, the Referer field in the subsequent brand-new HTTP Request would then be composed to include the prior HTML page that was responsible for the redirection, causing a t.co entry to appear in access_log.
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* About to connect() to t.co port 80 (#0)
* Trying 104.244.42.5...
* connected
* Connected to t.co (104.244.42.5) port 80 (#0)
> GET /oPQO7Xdz HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: iPhone;
> Host: t.co
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< cache-control: private,max-age=300
< content-length: 258
< content-security-policy: referrer always;
< content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 05:24:16 GMT
< expires: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 05:29:16 GMT
< server: tsa_o
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< x-connection-hash: 0dc5a2a6a7e83ac2d7fb207eb0cedf84
< x-response-time: 115
< x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
<
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* About to connect() to t.co port 80 (#0)
* Trying 104.244.42.69...
* connected
* Connected to t.co (104.244.42.69) port 80 (#0)
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> User-Agent: curl/7.26.0
> Host: t.co
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< cache-control: private,max-age=300
< content-length: 0
< date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 05:24:40 GMT
< expires: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 05:29:40 GMT
< location: http://mdoc.su/n/curl
< server: tsa_o
< set-cookie: muc=2c727b50-311f-4043-9861-9f703996a8a8; Expires=Tue, 19 Jun 2018 05:24:40 UTC; Domain=t.co
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I am trying to configure nginx to serve a static html page on the root domain, and proxy everything else to uwsgi. As a quick test I tried to divert to two different static pages:
server {
server_name *.example.dev;
index index.html index.htm;
listen 80;
charset utf-8;
location = / {
root /www/src/;
}
location / {
root /www/test/;
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}
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Curl output:
$ curl http://www.example.dev -v
* Rebuilt URL to: http://www.example.dev/
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
* Trying 192.168.50.51...
* Connected to www.example.dev (192.168.50.51) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.37.1
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>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
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< Server: nginx/1.8.0
< Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 01:11:10 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 415
< Last-Modified: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 02:53:27 GMT
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Consider the following hyperlink:
<a href="http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/∼shklar/">
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What HTTP/1.1 request will get submitted by the browser?
Will these requests change if the browser is configured to
contact an HTTP proxy? If yes, how?
While you could use tcpdump to dump the actual network traffic, curl is surely more handy to test the HTTP conversation from the command line.
An HTTP/1.0 request:
curl -v -0 http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/∼shklar/
* About to connect() to www.cs.rutgers.edu port 80 (#0)
* Trying 128.6.4.24...
* connected
* Connected to www.cs.rutgers.edu (128.6.4.24) port 80 (#0)
> GET /∼shklar/ HTTP/1.0
> User-Agent: curl/7.24.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.0) libcurl/7.24.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5
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< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:57:31 GMT
< Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix)
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
< Connection: close
An HTTP/1.1 request:
curl -v http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/∼shklar/
* About to connect() to www.cs.rutgers.edu port 80 (#0)
* Trying 128.6.4.24...
* connected
* Connected to www.cs.rutgers.edu (128.6.4.24) port 80 (#0)
> GET /∼shklar/ HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.24.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.0) libcurl/7.24.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5
> Host: www.cs.rutgers.edu
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
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< Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix)
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
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