RE: Trying direct when parent gets permission denied

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Hello,

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Dave J Woolley wrote:
> > From: Rainer Perske [SMTP:perske@uni-muenster.de]
> >
> > Now I guess that in the cases where I got complaints about non-reachable
> > e-zines, these e-zines did return "Not found" instead of "Forbidden" to
> > the parent server. I'm going to ask the complainers.
> >
> A lot of sites think it is "cool" to provide customised
> error pages, and, in some cases they end up doing this
> with a redirect which loses the original error status;
> it is possible that you will be unable to recognize the
> failures because they are not following the spirit of
> the protocol.

That's the reason why I think about adding "Not found". If that won't help
because the result is simply an alternate page with result "ok", then
there will be no chance except adding this one host in always_direct. I
hope there will be not too much of them.

> Incidentally, given that most legitimate users of
> e-zines would be on dynamic IP addresses, it seems
> rather suspect that they are validating on IP address;

Believe us :-) Many scientific e-zines are accessible by our
university where access permission is really granted on ip addresses.
These ip address include our local dial-in ports.

> although I think this is largely unenforced, I don't
> think the acceptable use policies for most UK
> Universities would actually permit recreational use,
> but it is seems they are targetting users who are
> using their employer's or school's connection.

Thanks for you hints and your opinion.

cu
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Received on Wed Sep 08 1999 - 06:19:24 MDT