Hi Stuart,

I did some testing with Wireshark.  If I try to get a package via ltib, I
get a 403 response.  If I try to get a package via wget, it works fine.  Is
there a way to change my ltib user agent to match wget?

Thanks,
Dave Kaplan

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Stuart Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> The reason for this is to try to limit the damage done by some scripts
> that seem to go haywire continuously downloading the same file over and
> over.  I have on a number of occasions in the past had the account
> suspended by the ISP due to what I think are bad scripts stuck in a loop.
>
> Access to the GPP is limited to certain user agents and also to a
> certain bandwidth within a given time.  So long as people atr using LTIB
> to build something they should have no problems.
>
> Regards, Stuart
>
> On 15/11/14 17:27, Mike Goins wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Petteri Matilainen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> On 14.11.2014 21:58, Peter Barada wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 11/14/2014 02:04 PM, David Kaplan wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I can not get any files from bitshrine, I always get a 403 not authed
> >>>> error.  For example,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     http://www.bitshrine.org/gpp/linux-2.6.27.8.tar.bz2
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there something wrong with my network, or is the error on the
> server?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I get the same error if I use a browser. But like Peter, with wget I can
> >> download it. No clue why though.
> >
> >
> > The server is checking the user agent.   Slight attempt to avert buggy
> > mirroring systems and browsers that wreak havoc on ISP bills.
> >
> > Stuart, what is total size of the gpp?  Average monthly traffic?
> >
> >
> >> regards,
> >>
> >> Pete
> >>
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