[Foundation-l] Downtime error message turned into monolingual

Tim Starling tstarling at wikimedia.org
Tue Dec 14 00:05:50 UTC 2010


On 11/12/10 00:07, Austin Hair wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Domas Mituzas
> <midom.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Like you say, though, it's definitely a technical issue to be
>>> taken up elsewhere.
>> 
>> Where you will be told that this is 'working as intended'. &
>> is usually sent in URLs by broken clients, so we block them as
>> early as possible.
> 
> With a "403 forbidden" error?  Do you really think that's
> semantically correct?

I think that's the only possible error response that you can deliver
from a Squid ACL. But a deny_info could be useful. Maybe Domas didn't
get up to the deny_info section in the manual ;)

-- Tim Starling





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