Yes. This is Google blocking the IP, not a firewall on the way. On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 6:00 PM Jun Tamura <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 2021/11/02 22:59、Jun Tamura <[email protected]>のメール: > > > > 2021/11/02 22:40、Phil Holmes <[email protected]>のメール: > > On 02/11/2021 12:53, Kevin Cole wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 6:42 AM Omid Mo'menzadeh <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello all. >> I'm not sure if this is the right list to post this, but I'll give it a >> shot here, and see where I should report this. >> The problem seems to be the website's hosting, which appears to be >> provided by Google, which blocks access from certain countries in >> accordance with US law (with the error message "403. That’s an error. Your >> client does not have permission to get URL / from this server. That’s all >> we know."). This would not surprise me if LilyPond was not a GNU project, >> but it's a bit off at the moment, to say the least. >> What I would want to know if this is something the team cares about, and >> where I should discuss this. >> Thanks, >> Omid Momenzadeh >> > I could be mistaken -- I often am -- but... > > I suspect it's merely that the site is designed to construct search > queries using Google as the default search engine -- along with Google's > option to limit the search to a particular site. This saves the maintainers > from having to install a search engine and keep it updated. > > (One other negative consequence of this setup is that it randomly chooses > the version of documentation -- e.g. If I am on a .../doc/v2.20/... page > and search for a term, it will happily offer up a match from > .../doc/v2.22/..., .../doc/2.18/... or whatever else it finds.) > > No - it's hosted on Google currently. > > -- > > Phil Holmes > > If it’s hosted on Google, the same thing must be happening in mainland > China as well. My last trip to China was in 2017 and, at that time, all the > connection to google.com domain and other services by the Alphabet group, > such as YouTube, was blocked by the “great wall” set up by the Chinese > government. > > Jun Tamura > https://imslp.org/wiki/User:Jun_T > > > Oops! I’m very sorry for my misunderstanding. Error 403 is not the one > caused by a firewall. > > Jun >
