On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Leon Weber <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 22.02.2009 03:57:15, [email protected] wrote:
>> OK, can you please stop giving 403 Forbidden for HEAD on both pages
>> that do and don't exist. It makes testing difficult.
>
> % HEAD -PS -H 'User-agent: leon' http://en.wikipedia.org/
> HEAD http://en.wikipedia.org/ --> 301 Moved Permanently
>
> Where does that make testing too hard?

You first have to find some dude who tells you "oh, 403 means probably
wrong user agent". IMO it should be stated in the HTML content of the
403 page WHY the request failed.

Marco
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