Redirection for Google's Change of Address Tool

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I’m trying to submit a Change of Address to Google and its validation of checking that http://careercraft.app redirects to https://careercraft.com is failing because the 301 takes http://careercraft.app to https://careercraft.app (which then 301 redirects to https://careercraft.com). It looks like they don’t like dealing with multiple redirections like this and that there’s no way to disable HTTPS within Netlify. I tried writing a rewrite rule to redirect http://careercraft.app to https://careercraft.com but it doesn’t seem to be working. This is what I have in our netlify.toml.

[[redirects]]
from = "http://careercraft.app/*"
to = "https://careercraft.com/:splat"
force = true

Did I misconfigure something?

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Looks like curling http://careercraft.app gives me the 301 redirect I’m expecting and Google can’t seem to even fetch the pages now so I’m guessing the issue is more on Google’s end now.

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And if anyone runs into this issue with Google as well, following "Couldn’t fetch the page" Getting error on change of address - Google Search Central Community did the trick

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