Posted on: 07/23/06 03:57pm
By: Anonymous (ruwen)
Hi!
I am proud user of geeklog (www.hirntot.org) and I want to stay up to date so I want to use the security RSS-Feed http://www.geeklog.net/backend/security.rss.
I can open it in Firefox and download it.
But when I open it in my RSS-Reader (RSSOwl) I get:
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Do you forbid some user-agents?
Or why do I get a 403-ReturnCode?
Security RSS-Feed Problem
Posted on: 07/23/06 04:07pm
By: Dirk
[QUOTE BY= ruwen] Do you forbid some user-agents?[/QUOTE]
Yep. Pure self defense, really. You should see some of the requests we get here ...
[QUOTE BY= ruwen] But when I open it in my RSS-Reader (RSSOwl) I get:
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden[/QUOTE]
Ah, that one. There was a problem with an older version of RSSOwl - although that was so long ago that I don't remember the details. But it earned itself this entry in our .htaccess:
# extremely stupid UA, causing lots of 404s
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} RSSOwl [NC,OR]
Well, I've unblocked it - try again now. We'll see if it learned to behave itself ...
bye, Dirk
Security RSS-Feed Problem
Posted on: 07/23/06 04:21pm
By: Anonymous (ruwen)
Thanks a lot mate, it works
If it creates problems again, plz fill this topic again. I will notice it due to the 403 in my RSS-Reader Maybe we can find a solution (or at least create a bug report).
Security RSS-Feed Problem
Posted on: 07/23/06 04:50pm
By: Dirk
I did actually contact the developers back then (that was in February 2005 and concerned versions 1.0 and 1.0.1). I'll keep an eye on it ...
bye, Dirk