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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:08:03 -0600
From:      Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>
To:        Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: weird 403 (forbidden) website access issue
Message-ID:  <5f5f0c28-95bf-4bc0-a677-fabc9b87812e@dreamchaser.org>
In-Reply-To: <20200331210711.301BC2CC98FE@macaroni.inf.ed.ac.uk>
References:  <20200331210711.301BC2CC98FE@macaroni.inf.ed.ac.uk>

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On 3/31/20 3:07 PM, Richard Tobin wrote:
>> The addr (www.ovandoschool.org) resolves to 69.175.87.226
>>
>> If I type in 69.175.87.226 in the address bar, I get a 403 error
> 
> ...
> 
>> $ telnet 69.175.87.226 80
>> Trying 69.175.87.226...
>> Connected to chi-node42.websitehostserver.net.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> GET / HTTP/1.1
>> Host: www.ovandoschool.org
> 
> If you give a browser the numeric IP address, it won't know what
> Host: header to send.

Thanks, that makes sense.  However, it fails with "www.ovandoschool.org"
as well.





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