Re: Is Gunnar Helliesen here?

[Alexander Schreiber <als%thangorodrim.ch@localhost>]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 08:19:00AM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> This started when I dusted off a VAX 3100 model 80.  I was looking for
> info on the back-panel connectors.  One place I started was
> http://wiki.NetBSD.org/ports/vax/.  Under "Additional Info", there's a
> line
> 
>           + NetBSD/vax FAQ maintained by Gunnar Helliesen [ mirror ]
>    
> When I try to follow the "mirror" link I get a page saying "406 Not
> Acceptable", with text saying this is generally because "a request has
> been blocked by Mod Security", whatever that is, adding "If you believe
> that your request has been blocked by mistake please contact the web
> site owner".
> 
> Well, I don't know whether it's by mistake or not, because I don't know
> what this "Mod Security" is supposed to do or whether the admin wants
> to block requests exhibiting whatever trait got mine turfed.  But I
> figure it's at least worth asking.
> 
> I suspect it's all of vaxarchive.org; asking for
> http://www.vaxarchive.org/ gets me an apparenlty identical 406 page.

It looks like Apache mod_security configured to block "I don't know
this browser" browser strings. Test results:
 - reasonably current Google Chrome: works
 - reasonably current Firefox: works
 - links: works
 - lynx: the "406 not acceptable" you mention
 - curl: same 406
 - wget: works

Ok, that is a weird "we don't want your kind" browser block list.

Kind regards,
           Alex.
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