- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 19:50:15 +0100
- To: "Star Ostgard" <ostarella@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On 2 Oct 2013, at 16:14, Star Ostgard wrote: > Getting tons of 403 errors but links work fine Picking one at random: david@raston $ curl -I -A "W3C-checklink/4.81 libwww-perl/5.836" "http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8703579/1/Agony-of-Prodigals" HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden ( ~/ )——( 2013-10-02 07:47:47 ) david@raston $ curl -I "http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8703579/1/Agony-of-Prodigals" HTTP/1.1 200 OK The server is discriminating against the link checker (or, more likely, against libwww-perl, on the basis that "Some people use this open source tool to build things we don't like! Block everyone using this open source tool!" and the assumption that bad users of it won't change the user agent entirely). -- David Dorward http://dorward.co.uk/
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