Re:ACM Digital Library Archive is Open Access with 50 Years ...
by ghostpepper on Friday May 20, 2022 @02:42PM
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Off topic but does anyone happen to know why the announcement page returns a 403 when accessed from a command line browser (lynx)?
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Re:ACM Digital Library Archive is Open Access with 50 Years ...
by harshreality on Friday May 20, 2022 @08:49PM
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Spoofing useragent works. From the look of it, it's a nginx-generated 403, which probably means they hardcoded their nginx config to block web clients they don't consider good webcitizens.
The string they're blocking isn't [Ll]ynx, it's libwww. Which Lynx has in its user agent string. They're not blocking wget or curl.
It's probably a misguided attempt to block custom written bots, maybe a particular one they've had trouble with in the past.