diff --git a/client.js b/client.js
index b77a5fb..765e5f6 100644
--- a/client.js
+++ b/client.js
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ var upstream;
 var prev_id;
 
 (function connect_proxy() {
-    opt.uri = base_uri + ((prev_id) ? prev_id : '');
+    opt.uri = base_uri + ((prev_id) ? prev_id : '?new');
 
     request(opt, function(err, res, body) {
         if (err) {
diff --git a/server.js b/server.js
index d43ffa1..45c2031 100644
--- a/server.js
+++ b/server.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 // builtin
 var http = require('http');
 var net = require('net');
+var url = require('url');
 var FreeList = require('freelist').FreeList;
 
 var argv = require('optimist')
@@ -103,7 +104,6 @@ server.on('connection', function(socket) {
 
     var request;
 
-    //var parser = new HTTPParser(HTTPParser.REQUEST);
     var parser = parsers.alloc();
     parser.socket = socket;
     parser.reinitialize(HTTPParser.REQUEST);
@@ -265,6 +265,14 @@ server.on('request', function(req, res) {
         return res.end();
     }
 
+    var parsed = url.parse(req.url);
+
+    // redirect main page to github reference
+    if (req.url === '/' && !parsed.query.new) {
+        res.writeHead(301, { Location: 'http://shtylman.github.com/localtunnel/' });
+        res.end();
+    }
+
     var match = req.url.match(/\/([a-z]{4})?/);
 
     // user can request a particular set of characters