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)

> There is a work-around, so all is not lost.  Just add this line to the
> OnlineOptions ssection of the WWWOFFLE configuration file:
>  <http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/*> request-chunked-data = 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 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.

> http://localhost:8080/info/url?http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/

oh wow, this is really nice. i never even considered that wwwoffle might
have such a feature. you just made it a lot harder to replace wwwoffle
by any competition

greetings, martin.
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