[cvsnt] Re: Can't Access CVSNT wiki from Mac with Safari

[Chris Little]

in article tl6800dgdkgvteklej8ku9170ooaf7dqlk at 4ax.com, Tony Hoyle at
tmh at nodomain.org wrote on 1/13/04 11:31 AM:

> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:52:28 -0500, Chris Little <cslittle at mac.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Has something changed in the setup of the CVSNT webserver recently?  Since
>> Monday I haven't been able to access http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/ from my Mac
>> laptop using Safari.  Whenever I try I get 403 Forbidden error message.  I
>> can view the wiki from IE on my Mac.  It isn't the setup of my laptop
>> because the same problem occurs from other Mac's here.
>> 
> What are you sending as your user agent string?  Safari isn't in my
> banned list, so that shouldn't be a problem.... possibly it's sending
> something that matches one of the web strippers...
> 
> I did a quick regex match with my list and couldn't find any match on
> the default Safari string (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X;
> en-us) AppleWebKit/85 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85)
> 
> Tony
> 

That is the user string for an older version of Safari.  The my string is

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/106.2 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Safari/100.1

Strangely enough I can now get into the wiki.

Chris