In a message of Wed, 22 Apr 2015 16:52:33 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: >It wouldn't be his machine. It would be something between his machine >and mail.python.org. Perhaps some kind of load balancer or other >device which submits each separate http request from one of a pool of >IP addresses. Thus, the subscribe only works if whatever it is uses >the same IP for both the GET and POST and the presence/absence of a >password is just a coincidence.
BINGO. He has found out that this is what happens at his (new) work site. It's a load balancer. He is very grateful for getting this figured out. :) I fear that this sort of load balancing is going to become all the more common in the future. Is insisting that the IP addresses match serving a useful purpose? Should we have a more informative error message? Laura ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
