Re: gitlab is down?

Howard Chu <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Jul 2026 18:03:10 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.network.openldap.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

[email protected] wrote:
> Opening the gitlab server https://git.openldap.org from the browser (with any path) responds with 402 Payment Required and with text body "Pay us for your usage".
> 
> Reproducible with:
> curl -v -H 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/149.0.0.0 Safari/537.36' https://git.openldap.org/

You're using a user agent that was spending millions of spam requests to the site.

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