I have to say that I'm not a Unix guru at all.
Well, I've inspected my computer and found a typo in the IPtables that left the port 3128 open. I think it should be OK now but I'm not certain. If someone can verify and unblock me I'll be happy.
I would suggest to improve the proxy blocker : - By reporting what kind of security hole was discovered, - By adding a button to allow the blocked user to for a recheck of his computer and unblock himself when the hole is fixed.
Eric Demolli
----- Original Message ----- From: "Timwi" timwi@gmx.net To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 11:41 AM Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Why am I blocked ?
Jimmy Wales wrote:
This seems easy enough to fix. The link above should do nothing. If we're testing a proxy, we should try to get the client to request ...?title=Special:Blockme&validation=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx where 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxx' is something that we can generate easily but that's difficult for User:EvilUser to duplicate.
Additionally, it should probably be a POST request, so it can't be embedded in an IMG tag anyway.
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