On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 03:57:21PM +0300, Maxim Dounin wrote: > Hello! > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:00:01AM +1100, Sylvain BERTRAND wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 07:31:15PM +0000, Nelson, Erik - 2 wrote: > > > B.R. Monday, November 23, 2015 2:26 PM > > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Sylvain BERTRAND > > > <sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>That's why I'm posting here: *Only nginx* www sites does block lynx. > > > >>Something > > > >>is not right there: a default aggressive blocking policy from nginx? > > > > > > >There is a difference between 'only websites I visit which happen to > > > >use nginx' and 'every nginx websites' > > > > > > That may be true, but it's missing the point. This has come up before on > > > the > > > ML. The point is that he has observed something systemic. Maybe it's a > > > default configuration that's tighter (as he suggested), maybe it's that > > > admins who use nginx just hate lynx, or maybe it's something else. > > > > > > Whatever it is, there's *something* about nginx that's different. > > > > You got it right. > > > > The last web site... a friend sent me the link (:p), had to remove the > > user-agent from http headers. > > http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/hacker-collective-anonymous-claims-isis-has-plans-for-more-attacks-on-sunday/ > > The site in question uses CloudFlare, a big CDN and DDoS > protection system known to use nginx. It's not really a surprise > that a DDoS protection service uses an aggresive blocking policy > not very friendly to various minor browsers. Nothing here that > can be fixed by nginx though, and writing to this list is likely > useless (well, some people from CloudFlare are likely to read this > list, but I doubt they'll notice this thread, and anyway it's a > wrong way to contact them).
Then, if I understand well, it's a CloudFlare mistake, who happens to use nginx only. That makes sense, and is quite unfair for nginx to be displayed while applying CloudFlare blocking. That's really mis-leading. -- Sylvain _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
