[WikiEN-l] Re: Why am I blocked ?

[Eric Demolli]

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 at gmx.net>
To: <wikien-l at 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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