Hi list, As I wrote before, the issue that some of you encounter IS an issue on ibiblio's side.
Sometimes, they decide to allow HTTP directory listings, and sometimes not. This is not anything new, since I have observed this behaviour for many months now. There is no point in fiddling with your browser, your PC, or whatever that is local to you. You are not the problem. iBiblio is. Using FTP is an easy workaround, there, they never disallow directories listings: ftp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/ Now, since the issue seems to cause a general panic on the list, I looked more closely to it. In my previous message, I wrote that they might use a load balanced servers farm with inconsistent http configuration across nodes. This is still a possibility, but I also came up to another observation - basing on my limited tests (from last 10 minutes), I see that they disallow directory listings over IPv6, but not over IPv4. Below is an extract of telnet tests I performed that proves the point above (headers only). === over IPv6 === mateusz@mateusz:~> telnet www.ibiblio.org 80 Trying 2610:28:3090:3000:0:bad:cafe:23... Connected to www.ibiblio.org. Escape character is '^]'. GET /pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/ HTTP/1.0 Host: www.ibiblio.org HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 07:58:22 GMT Server: Apache Content-Length: 324 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 === over IPv4 === mateusz@mateusz:~> telnet 152.19.134.40 80 Trying 152.19.134.40... Connected to 152.19.134.40. Escape character is '^]'. GET /pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/ HTTP/1.0 Host: www.ibiblio.org HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 07:59:45 GMT Server: Apache Content-Length: 4916 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Before you all jump to testing iBiblio's server substituting ibiblio.org with its IPv4 address in your browser: please don't do that, it will lead you nowhere because iBiblio's servers are virtual hosts, and expect to get their proper hostname from browser's request in the 'host' field. if you are wondering what 'virtutal hosting' is, you might want to look up RFC2616. // conclusions // 1. the problem is on iBiblio's servers, not in your browser/os/whatever. Either their load balancing pool is screwed, or their IPv6 configuration is inconsistent. 2. if you have troubles to access iBiblio's directories listings, use ftp. 3. if you have some access to iBiblio's technical staff, you might try asking them to fix their servers. cheers, Mateusz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
