Re: One step @ a time (Marc Stevens)
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 5:05 am
True, one of the flimsy pasteboard variety.
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could in fact be accidental - a violation of host rules, a misconfigured board, a hack, whatever. I retract what I wrote above - not because it's necessarily wrong, but because it's not necessarily right.Authentication required.
http://marcstevens.net is requesting your username and password. The site says: “Access Restricted (suspend)”
Interesting. For me the site says:wserra wrote:I may have posted too quickly. From the little I know, this:could in fact be accidental - a violation of host rules, a misconfigured board, a hack, whatever. I retract what I wrote above - not because it's necessarily wrong, but because it's not necessarily right.Authentication required.
http://marcstevens.net is requesting your username and password. The site says: “Access Restricted (suspend)”
web?
The difference in text is just down to what browser you use. Going in raw, I'm getting:juan galt wrote:Interesting. For me the site says:wserra wrote:I may have posted too quickly. From the little I know, this:could in fact be accidental - a violation of host rules, a misconfigured board, a hack, whatever. I retract what I wrote above - not because it's necessarily wrong, but because it's not necessarily right.Authentication required.
http://marcstevens.net is requesting your username and password. The site says: “Access Restricted (suspend)”
web?
"Authentication required
http://marcstevens.net
Your connection to this site is not private"
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$ telnet marcstevens.net 80
Trying 162.144.1.71...
Connected to marcstevens.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
-> HEAD /index.htm HTTP/1.1
-> Host: marcstevens.net
-> Connection: close
->
HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required
Server: nginx/1.12.2
Date: [redacted]
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Connection: close
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Access Restricted (suspend)"
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection closed by foreign host.
For what it's worth, I do see mention online of some hosts doing exactly this, for exactly this reason (example). IMHO, this is stupid on the part of the host: the 503 Unavailable error exists for this sort of reason, and is a much more accurate error to give than a 401, leaving site visitors twisting in the wind on some spurious login prompt. And you (I mean, you the server owner) can usually redirect it to a page that says, "Oops! That site went over quota...," so the users know what's going on, and can send the author upgrade money or vicious taunts as appropriate.wserra wrote:Thinking this over, I believe that morrand is right - this is likely not Stevens' doing. If your site is hosted on a shared server, you are going to be restricted to using x% of the server's resources. Otherwise, one site could take over the server. When such a site exceeds its allocated resources, the host will likely do something very like this to get the offending site to mend its piggish ways. If so, the login is not for users - it's for the webmaster to get in and clean up.
But, given my knowledge of this stuff, this may simply be a WAG.