#8663 https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org shows HTTP 403 Forbidden in Lynx (and it should not)
Closed: Fixed 4 years ago by cverna. Opened 4 years ago by stevko.

Opening https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/ in lynx shows 403 Forbidden. I think it should not.

It seems to check if user-agent contains "libwww". Compare outputs of:

curl --user-agent "libwww" -o /dev/null --silent --write-out '%{http_code}\n' https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/

and

curl --user-agent "something" -o /dev/null --silent --write-out '%{http_code}\n' https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/

The first one shows 403, the second one 200.

Lynx user agent on Fedora

Lynx/2.8.9rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1d

Community blog is run out of wordpress.com so is subject to their filters. Infrastructure does not have a way to change that so will see if that needs.

@misc do you know who runs this or if it can be allowed?

Metadata Update from @smooge:
- Issue priority set to: Waiting on Assignee (was: Needs Review)

4 years ago

Just to be precise, communityblog is run from wpengine.com, a wordpress.com competitor. I will see with their support.

The support did fixed that by adding a rule to remove that filtering (and sorry, seems I forgot to hit enter, this was fixed yesterday)

Also, if someone could close it, cause I can't (and this is not assigned to me either)

Metadata Update from @cverna:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

4 years ago

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