Re: www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/ blocks wwwoffle?

Martin B=E4hr <mbaehr-J82dVEKiPgVsIEQYbtjsvCEcasqEdqbRs2V0tQ3P5b8@public.gmane.org> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 07:34:01PM +0100, Andrew M. Bishop wrote:
>> I can verify that WWWOFFLE is blocked by this blog and some others
>> because of the set of headers that it sends.  The script that is doing
>> the blocking is called "bad behaviour" and it has been around for a
>> while.
>
> and it is used by sites where wwwoffle is not blocked
> (blogs.gnome.org for example claims to use it)

This is strange.  Perhaps different versions of the program work
differently.

>> OnlineOptions ssection of the WWWOFFLE configuration file:
>>  <http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/*> request-chunked-data =
=3D no
>
> oh phantastic, if it's configurable, then there is no need making it the
> default (i could easely apply it to <*> if i wanted to)

I made it the default because it is a new feature in HTTP/1.1 so I
thought that it must be a good idea.

>> I thought that it was so funny that a "standards blog" would block
>> browsers for trivial reasons that I e-mailed the address on the error
>> page.  I will let you know if I get anything back.
>
> i'd be curious. i think i tried emailing them without any results, but
> then i didn't know what you know, so maybe since you can explain
> the problem they will actually listen.

I did e-mail what I thought was the right address (after removing the
SPAM trap e-mail address).  I didn't receive a reply.

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Andrew.
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