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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:07:11 +0100 (BST)
From:      Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
To:        freebsd@dreamchaser.org, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: weird 403 (forbidden) website access issue
Message-ID:  <20200331210711.301BC2CC98FE@macaroni.inf.ed.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Gary Aitken's message of Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:33:20 -0600

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> 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.

-- Richard

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