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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