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Re: status 403 Forbidden on Traffic Report
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Sat, 18 Mar 2000 21:02:07 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.general, John Robert Blaze Kanehl writes:
> > I tried to access the Traffic page and got:
> > Status 403 Forbidden
> > and a blank white screen.
> > I am using a webtv+ ...I am not highly computer literate so I don't know
> > what this means...
> > Did I do something wrong?
>
> Sorry about that. No, you didn't do anything wrong...I did something wrong.
> About a half hour ago, I updated the server's list of weeded-out user agents
> (a.k.a. crawlers and robots). While looking at MSIE hits in the HTTP logs,
> I also noticed an unusual number of hits from clients not reporting any user
> agent string. Added this and a couple other new ones to the regex filter and
> retested a bunch of URLs. Forgot that the traffic page is special from all
> the others in that the server generates a faux call to itself and caches the
> result as a static HTML page every five minutes. When it does that, the user
> agent is undefined, and hence the unwanted error. For now, I relaxed the
> restriction on undefined agents, and later I'll add a line to the auto-gen
> script to define the agent when it invokes itself, so that it con't do that
> sort of thing again if I forget again in the future.
>
> --Todd
Thank you...I may now resume my afternoon reading...color me happy....BTW
loved the Leprahaun on the main page yesterday...
John
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