• Ewen Wannop's Site Down?

    From Hugh Hood@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 19 12:13:53 2023
    Ewen, I hope you are well these days.

    As I attempted to access <https://speccie.uk/software/> this morning, I received a 403 error saying "Access is forbidden to the requested page".

    My sincere hope is that this is a temporary anomaly, as your site is
    invaluable to Apple II users.

    Regards,




    Hugh Hood

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  • From David Schmidt@21:1/5 to Hugh Hood on Sun Feb 19 13:48:18 2023
    On 2/19/23 1:13 PM, Hugh Hood wrote:
    Ewen, I hope you are well these days.

    As I attempted to access <https://speccie.uk/software/> this morning, I received a 403 error saying "Access is forbidden to the requested page".

    My sincere hope is that this is a temporary anomaly, as your site is invaluable to Apple II users.

    His site is looking good from my end of the internet.

    - David

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  • From Hugh Hood@21:1/5 to David Schmidt on Sun Feb 19 19:12:26 2023
    David,

    Thanks for that report.

    I tried again in FireFox (V110.0) after clearing the cache, and still
    get the 403 error.

    So, I went over to Edge (which I really never use), and it pulls up
    Ewen's site just fine.

    I dunno.




    Hugh Hood



    On 2/19/2023 12:48 PM, David Schmidt wrote:
    On 2/19/23 1:13 PM, Hugh Hood wrote:
    Ewen, I hope you are well these days.

    As I attempted to access <https://speccie.uk/software/> this
    morning, I received a 403 error saying "Access is forbidden to the
    requested page".

    My sincere hope is that this is a temporary anomaly, as your site
    is invaluable to Apple II users.

    His site is looking good from my end of the internet.

    - David


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  • From Speccie@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 20 08:00:28 2023
    Hugh,

    Ewen, I hope you are well these days.

    I am still here, and am alive and kicking...

    As I attempted to access<https://speccie.uk/software/> this morning, I received a 403 error saying "Access is forbidden to the requested page".
    Strange. I did nothing to it yesterday, though I may not have accessed it, and it was working fine for me when I checked just now.

    Downdetector does show Zen Internet had some problems yesterday, but they sound more like local access to users in the UK, than with the Zen Internet servers themselves.

    Let me know if it has persisted, or is now working again today...

    Cheers - Ewen

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  • From Charlie@21:1/5 to Speccie on Mon Feb 20 10:31:33 2023
    On 2/20/2023 3:00 AM, Speccie wrote:
    Hugh,

    Ewen, I hope you are well these days.

    I am still here, and am alive and kicking...

    As I attempted to access<https://speccie.uk/software/> this morning, I
    received a 403 error saying "Access is forbidden to the requested page".
    Strange. I did nothing to it yesterday, though I may not have accessed it, and it was working fine for me when I checked just now.

    Downdetector does show Zen Internet had some problems yesterday, but they sound more like local access to users in the UK, than with the Zen Internet servers themselves.

    Let me know if it has persisted, or is now working again today...

    Cheers - Ewen


    It seems to be a Firefox problem. Both Edge and Opera access the site
    with no problem. Firefox still gets a 403 error.

    Charlie

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  • From Hugh Hood@21:1/5 to Charlie on Mon Feb 20 20:23:38 2023
    On 2/20/2023 9:31 AM, Charlie wrote:

    It seems to be a Firefox problem. Both Edge and Opera access the site
    with no problem. Firefox still gets a 403 error.

    Charlie


    Charlie,

    Indeed you are correct.

    After changing the FireFox 110.0 useragent string to the one for Chrome,
    Ewen's site came up just fine.

    Thanks for confirming that it was a Firefox issue.




    Hugh Hood


    P.S. - Ewen, I am most pleased to hear that you are well. I wish you
    continued good health.

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  • From Speccie@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 21 07:56:28 2023
    Hugh,

    After changing the FireFox 110.0 useragent string to the one for Chrome, Ewen's site came up just fine.

    I can’t think why Zen Internet have a dislike to FireFox, and it is nothing obviously I can do anything about anyway.

    P.S. - Ewen, I am most pleased to hear that you are well. I wish you continued good health.

    The NHS here in the UK, manages to keeps me alive...

    Cheers - Ewen

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  • From mmphosis@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 21 18:31:55 2023
    This seems like a web server side issue. The web server should not be doing anything more than logging the useragent string. On the other hand, Mozilla should not be doing anything to work around web servers that do weird
    things. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1805967

    Changing the useragent in Firefox to make the rv:version match the Firefox/version appears to resolve the issue. As long as I can go to https://speccie.uk/software/ I am happy. I don't care about those other
    sites trying (and failing) to detect IE11. To change the useragent string:

    about:config

    general.useragent.override

    String

    +

    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:110.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0

    OR...

    Apple ][

    :D

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  • From Jerry Penner@21:1/5 to mmphosis on Tue Feb 21 22:10:30 2023
    mmphosis <mmphosis@macgui.com> writes:

    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:110.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0

    One observation is that it worked fine with Firefox 109 but gives the
    403 error with Firefox 110.

    One can play around with the Firefox's user-agent string and reproduce
    this behavior:

    This works:

    general.useragent.override=
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0
    ^^ ^^

    This does not:
    general.useragent.override=
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0
    ^^ ^^

    And then this does:
    general.useragent.override=
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:110.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0
    ^^ ^^

    It's an odd bug.

    --
    --
    Jerry jerry+a2 at jpen.ca

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  • From Speccie@21:1/5 to mmphosis on Wed Feb 22 08:16:35 2023
    On 21 Feb 2023, mmphosis wrote
    (in article <mmphosis-1677004314@macgui.com>):

    Changing the useragent in Firefox to make the rv:version match the Firefox/version appears to resolve the issue. As long as I can go to https://speccie.uk/software/ I am happy. I don't care about those other
    sites trying (and failing) to detect IE11. To change the useragent string:

    It seems the problem has arisen with the latest Firefox update v110.0, as when I started Firefox 109.0.1 this morning (from here in the UK), my web site came up just fine.

    Firefox then announced there was an update, and after the update was applied, and I restarted Firefox, the 403 error then appeared.

    That would confirm what you are saying here...

    Chrome reports the website is not secure, and won’t open it either, which implies Zen’s certificate is not being recognised, and Safari (on the Mac) seems to be having problems too...

    Zen seems to be down again just now, as I can’t now even get to my CPanel or Portal, so I will keep monitoring this, and talk to Zen if it does not resolve itself...

    Cheers - Ewen

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  • From Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 22 13:05:34 2023
    Groovy hepcat Speccie was jivin' in comp.sys.apple2 on Tue, 21 Feb 2023
    06:56 pm. It's a cool scene! Dig it.

    After changing the FireFox 110.0 useragent string to the one for
    Chrome, Ewen's site came up just fine.

    I can’t think why Zen Internet have a dislike to FireFox, and it is

    I use firefox 68.5.0esr, and had no trouble accessing your site.

    nothing obviously I can do anything about anyway.

    You could, I suppose, contact them and complain..., or at least ask
    what the deal is.

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  • From Speccie@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 23 08:02:51 2023
    Peter,

    You could, I suppose, contact them and complain..., or at least ask
    what the deal is.

    That is the next step...

    It is fine on Safari on the Mac, which is often fussy about some sites, and is also fine on my iPhone, though that does report the site is not secure.

    It is even fine on Webber, as the domain name is set to accept both HTTP and HTTPS connections!

    Cheers - Ewen

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  • From Speccie@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 23 13:50:14 2023
    Hugh, Peter et al...

    It is fine on Safari on the Mac, which is often fussy about some sites, and is also fine on my iPhone, though that does report the site is not secure.

    I raised the problem with my website service provider Zen, and got a quick response this morning. It seems to have resolved the problem for me, so can someone please confirm it has been resolved for you as well?

    This is what Zen said:

    "An update last week on Firefox we think triggered the server firewall protections our end and we pushed a fix out (which should now be in place for your account)”

    Cheers - Ewen

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  • From magnusfalkirk@21:1/5 to Charlie on Thu Feb 23 07:33:06 2023
    On Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 9:22:07 AM UTC-6, Charlie wrote:
    On 2/23/2023 8:50 AM, Speccie wrote:
    Hugh, Peter et al...

    It is fine on Safari on the Mac, which is often fussy about some sites, and is also fine on my iPhone, though that does report the site is not secure.

    I raised the problem with my website service provider Zen, and got a quick response this morning. It seems to have resolved the problem for me, so can someone please confirm it has been resolved for you as well?

    This is what Zen said:

    "An update last week on Firefox we think triggered the server firewall protections our end and we pushed a fix out (which should now be in place for your account)”

    Cheers - Ewen

    Your site is now working for me with Firefox v110.0 64bit.

    Charlie

    I agree with Charlie, your site is working fine on the latest version of Firefox now.

    magnus

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  • From Charlie@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 23 10:22:03 2023
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  • From mmphosis@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 23 17:29:50 2023
    It's working now! :)

    I removed the custom useragent string from Firefox. All is well.

    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0

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  • From Jerry Penner@21:1/5 to Speccie on Thu Feb 23 21:40:50 2023
    Speccie <someone@somewhere.com> writes:

    Hugh, Peter et al...

    It is fine on Safari on the Mac, which is often fussy about some sites, and is also fine
    on my iPhone, though that does report the site is not secure.

    I raised the problem with my website service provider Zen, and got a quick response this
    morning. It seems to have resolved the problem for me, so can someone please confirm it
    has been resolved for you as well?

    This is what Zen said:

    "An update last week on Firefox we think triggered the server firewall protections our end
    and we pushed a fix out (which should now be in place for your account)”

    Working here for me, just like the others report. Firefox 110 Linux.

    --
    Jerry jerry+a2 at jpen.ca

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  • From Hugh Hood@21:1/5 to Speccie on Thu Feb 23 23:04:06 2023
    Ewen,

    Thank you for having the website problem corrected for us. Like the
    others have reported, I am able to access your site just fine in FireFox
    110.0.

    Kindest regards,




    Hugh Hood


    On 2/23/2023 7:50 AM, Speccie wrote:

    This is what Zen said:

    "An update last week on Firefox we think triggered the server
    firewall protections our end and we pushed a fix out (which should
    now be in place for your account)”

    Cheers - Ewen


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  • From Speccie@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 24 08:00:14 2023
    Hugh and everybody else...

    Thank you for having the website problem corrected for us. Like the
    others have reported, I am able to access your site just fine in FireFox 110.0.

    Thank you for confirming all is now well. It seems to have been a problem caused by Firefox changing their identification string, which with Zen being too careful, meant they had to reset their firewall...

    As Zen is the most outstanding ISP here in the UK, and tops the “Best ISP” charts every year, and who actually have people locally in the UK on the phone if you need to talk to them, I will not be changing my ISP!

    Cheers - Ewen

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