- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:53:19 +0100
- To: Steve Niemitz <sniemitz@capitaliq.com>
- Cc: "site-comments@w3.org" <site-comments@w3.org>
On 30 Oct 2010, at 5:44 PM, Steve Niemitz wrote: > Hello, > > A few hours ago I noticed that any request for DTDs to your site > (for example: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-special.ent) > began to break on any request with MSIE in the useragent. > > For example: > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/ > 4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR > > Will return a 403 but: > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/ > 4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR > (I just removed the “I” from MSIE) works fine. > > This also happens to break any request made from the .NET framework > as it uses a useragent with MSIE in it. I don’t really know who to > direct this to but I imagine it’s a pretty large issue. Steve, Our site was suffering from some heavy traffic and I suspect that our systems team adjusted a configuration to stop the attack. I will let them know what you found. Apologies for the inconvenience, _ Ian > > Thanks. > Steve > -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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