Directory of Slavic Websites

[Kjetil Raa Hauge]

George Fowler wrote:

>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 works fine from home here, with 14.4K bps and dynamically-assigned IP
numbers. But of course, there is so much less salt water between here and
Estonia...

-- Kjetil Raa Hauge, U. of Oslo. Phone +47/22856710, fax +47/22854140