On 2/25/09 11:49 AM, Magnus Manske wrote:
Trying to access en.wikipedia from the UK fails. Other wikipedias are OK.
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Error message (extremely helpful):
* Access Denied. Access control configuration prevents your request from being
allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.
I've got other reports of no problems accessing the site from the UK.
There are three reasons you might get a 403 from our squids:
1) "&" in your URL (tends to produce infinite link loops that broken spiders follow)
Doesn't appear to apply.
2) Missing or blacklisted User-Agent header
Could be something custom in your browser or proxy configuration.
3) You're connecting from an IP address that's been blacklisted due to abusive spidering
Not knowing where you're coming from, we can't really check this. :)
-- brion