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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by Mogzol on Monday August 11, 2025 @04:04PM (#44868812)
You can return a 451 error with a descriptive page, same as how sites have custom 404 pages
Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by bravesoul2 on Monday August 11, 2025 @05:02PM (#44869437)
We need new 6xx codes. "Requests that are fine, need no redirection and have no errors but are blocked because of politics, overbearing laws or regime"
Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by willglynn on Monday August 11, 2025 @05:04PM (#44869461)
For example, "An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles":

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7725

Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by marcosdumay on Monday August 11, 2025 @05:31PM (#44869705)
That's what 451 means.

It's "user error, you are trying to access the site from some dystopian society that prohibits it".

Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by bravesoul2 on Monday August 11, 2025 @05:36PM (#44869751)
Yeah but I want to know if I should submit, protest or revolt. I need more codes :)
Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by Mogzol on Monday August 11, 2025 @06:02PM (#44869967)
451 is such a good reference though, other codes just wouldn't be the same :(
Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by anigbrowl on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:02PM (#44870438)
It's largely meaningless to anyone US-based sci-fi nerds, and by itself it tells the user nothing about which jurisdiction the legal issue is in.
Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by bravesoul2 on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @07:12AM (#44887025)
My scheme allows for 666 but I get it.
Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by theandrewbailey on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:08PM (#44870481)
The 451 response's body will contain further instructions.
Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by bravesoul2 on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @11:39PM (#44884452)
I guess. But I'd like to grep my access logs to get some high level metrics for the uprising.