From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: "James A. Robinson" Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 17:42:14 +0000 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11481626acdece053de5591a Subject: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com hates AppleWebKit? Topicbox-Message-UUID: a2bc4754-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a11481626acdece053de5591a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 So... Does Alcatel-Lucent have a problem with AppleWebKit users on principle? It looks to me as though my problem with browsing around under http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/ (and other subpages) is because the server doesn't like the User-Agent string: $ telnet plan9.bell-labs.com 80 Trying 135.104.24.16... Connected to plan9.bell-labs.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET /sources/contrib/ HTTP/1.1 Host: plan9.bell-labs.com Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.116 Safari/537.36 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8 DNT: 1 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection closed by foreign host. And here it is again w/o the User-Agent string: $ telnet plan9.bell-labs.com 80 Trying 135.104.24.16... Connected to plan9.bell-labs.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET /sources/contrib/ HTTP/1.1 Host: plan9.bell-labs.com Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8 DNT: 1 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Plan9 Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 17:29:09 GMT Connection: close Last-Modified: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 22:14:11 GMT Content-Type: text/html [... proper body returned...] I tried playing around with the UA value and found that if I change AppleWebKit to something else such as AppleWebKis I get a response... Jim --001a11481626acdece053de5591a Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
So... Does Alcatel-Lucent have a problem with AppleWebKit=
users on principle?

It looks to me as though my problem with br= owsing around
under http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/ (and other subpages)
i= s because the server doesn't like the User-Agent string:

$ telne= t plan9.bell-labs.com 80
Tryi= ng 135.104.24.16...
Connected to = plan9.bell-labs.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /sourc= es/contrib/ HTTP/1.1
Host: plan9.= bell-labs.com
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=3D0Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel= Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.= 116 Safari/537.36
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xm= l;q=3D0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=3D0.8
DNT: 1
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflat= e, sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=3D0.8

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Conn= ection closed by foreign host.

And here it is again w/o the User-Age= nt string:

$ telnet plan9.bel= l-labs.com 80
Trying 135.104.24.16...
Connected to plan9.bell-labs.com.
Escape character is &#= 39;^]'.
GET /sources/contrib/ HTTP/1.1
Host: plan9.bell-labs.com
Connection: keep-alive
Cac= he-Control: max-age=3D0
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Accept: text/htm= l,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=3D0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=3D0.8
D= NT: 1
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;= q=3D0.8

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Plan9
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 1= 7:29:09 GMT
Connection: close
Last-Modified: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 22:14:1= 1 GMT
Content-Type: text/html

[... proper body returned...]
I tried playing around with the UA value and found that if I change
A= ppleWebKit to something else such as AppleWebKis I get a
response...
=
Jim

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