Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 13:59:08 +0200 From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de> To: Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd@dreamchaser.org, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: weird 403 (forbidden) website access issue Message-ID: <20200401115908.GA6415@schmorp.de> In-Reply-To: <20200331210711.301BC2CC98FE@macaroni.inf.ed.ac.uk> References: <20200331210711.301BC2CC98FE@macaroni.inf.ed.ac.uk>
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:07:11PM +0100, Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > If you give a browser the numeric IP address, it won't know what > Host: header to send. HTTP/1.1 specifies exactly what to send in that case, namely the uri-host, which would simply tbe the IP address in this case - URLs with ip literals are perfectly fine and work with HTTP/1.1. It might still be cause of a problem on the server side, but browser behaviour is pretty much inversally the same for this case. -- The choice of a Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG -----==- _GNU_ http://www.deliantra.net ----==-- _ generation ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / schmorp@schmorp.de -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
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