On 30 Oct 2010, at 5:44 PM, Steve Niemitz wrote:
Hello,
A few hours ago I noticed that any request for DTDs to your site
(for example: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-special.ent)
began to break on any request with MSIE in the useragent.
For example:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/
4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR
Will return a 403 but:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/
4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR
(I just removed the “I” from MSIE) works fine.
This also happens to break any request made from the .NET framework
as it uses a useragent with MSIE in it. I don’t really know who to
direct this to but I imagine it’s a pretty large issue.
Steve,
Our site was suffering from some heavy traffic and I suspect that our
systems team adjusted a configuration to stop the attack. I will let
them know what you found. Apologies for the inconvenience,
_ Ian
Thanks.
Steve
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