Directory of Slavic Websites

[George Fowler]

Greetings!
     Robert Beard reports that he can reach the following URL with no
particular trouble:

http://www.cs.ut.ee/~roman_l/rusweb.html

At the same time, George Mitrevski reports getting the following
semi-funny, semi-irritating error message:

403 Forbidden

Your client does not have permission to get URL - can't find you. You don't
exist, go away from this server.



I think this must have to do with whether or not the request to visit the
page comes from a recognized DNS entry or not. For example, I just tried it
via Netscape from home, and got the dreaded Forbidden response. Without
changing my connection (PPP at 14.4K baud via modem), I logged into a unix
machine and accessed it through lynx. It accepted it this time ('course
it's in koi8, which is gobbledy-gook on lynx!). The difference must be that
it recognizes the unix host, but not my Mac, which has a
dynamically-assigned IP number that differs from session to session.

It would be interesting to try Netscape from a hard-wired Mac on our
campus; I'll do it the next time I'm there. In the meantime, I predict that
George tried from home, or at least via modem, while Bob tried from his
office via a hard-wired machine (which would have a fixed IP number).

My two cents' worth!

George Fowler

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