Thanks Mateusz! I'll open a support ticket with ibiblio with this
information. They may not be aware of the problem.
On Jan 17, 2015 2:21 AM, "Mateusz Viste" <mate...@viste.fr> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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