Here are some recent IP edits (within the past few minutes) from the UK: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Improvisation&diff=273262801&oldid=273255518 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conversation&diff=273262757&oldid=273235215 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Double-decker_bus&diff=273262874&oldid=272183733 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Outlook_Express&diff=273262902&oldid=272738336 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phil_Anselmo&diff=273262700&oldid=273093698(ok)
-Aude On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Magnus Manske <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2/25/09 11:49 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: > >> Trying to access en.wikipedia from the UK fails. Other wikipedias are > OK. > > [snip] > >> Error message (extremely helpful): > >> > >> * Access Denied. > >> > >> Access control configuration prevents your request from being > >> allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel > >> this is incorrect. > > > > I've got other reports of no problems accessing the site from the UK. > > OK, at least it's not the IWF again ;-) > > > There are three reasons you might get a 403 from our squids: > > > > 1) "&" in your URL (tends to produce infinite link loops that broken > > spiders follow) > > > > Doesn't appear to apply. > > Nope. http://en.wikipedia.org/ doesn't work as well. > > > 2) Missing or blacklisted User-Agent header > > > > Could be something custom in your browser or proxy configuration. > > > Didn't change anything since it worked a minute before... > > > 3) You're connecting from an IP address that's been blacklisted due to > > abusive spidering > > I'm on cable modem so I'm likely to keep my IP, right? > Also, would that blacklist only apply to en.wikipedia, or all sites? > Because the rest works just fine. Even > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page > works! > > > Hitting reload on the error message, I get lots of different servers > knsqXX.knams.wikimedia.org (XX being a number) > so it seems to be something systemic and not just a bad cache. > > I'll just use the secure site for now ;-) > > Magnus > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- Aude _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
