On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:31:51AM -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
This guy is having trouble connecting. Although I can use the website fine with a number of browsers, I am able to replicate this exact sequence using telnet. What's the issue here?
This fellow apparently can't see the website.
============================================================================= phil@altair:/home/phil 96> telnet en.wikipedia.org 80 Trying 130.94.122.199... Connected to en.wikipedia.org. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: en.wikipedia.org
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
The request doesn't specify a user-agent. Those are blocked since they originate from badly written spiders most of the time.
Best regards,
JeLuF