For days, packets wandered aimlessly through the digital wilderness.
DNS records were questioned.
Firewall rules were scrutinized.
Certificates were created, deleted, and recreated with increasing frustration.
Host headers were suspected.
IIS bindings were interrogated.
Browser caches were cleared with extreme prejudice.
Yet despite every obstacle, every 403, every 404, every moment spent staring
at logs wondering what ancient curse had been unleashed upon this infrastructure...
...the request has arrived successfully.