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Nix Probe Posted: 29 Aug 2005 13:42 GMT Total Posts: 1	It says I am forbidden. What should I do?
TI Freak Probe Posted: 29 Aug 2005 15:15 GMT Total Posts: Edit	The site probably ran out of bandwidth, check back to it later...
Ray Kremer Ultralisk Posted: 29 Aug 2005 16:08 GMT Total Posts: 310	Craziest thing I've ever seen. It says forbidden but if you hit reload it comes up fine. Lemme try some variations: http://www.technicalc.org/tifaq/ http://www.technicalc.org/tifaq/index.htm http://www.technicalc.org/tifaq/?games.htm http://www.technicalc.org/tifaq/index.htm?games.htm
Ray Kremer Ultralisk Posted: 29 Aug 2005 16:11 GMT Total Posts: 310	Seems to work okay if I actually reference index.htm in the link. Go figure.
Andy Administrator Posted: 29 Aug 2005 18:23 GMT Total Posts: 939	Sounds like the apache config got borked somehow.
Ray Kremer Ultralisk Posted: 31 Aug 2005 13:52 GMT Total Posts: 310	Now only one of the four links works, and that probably because it was in the browser cache. The actual reload button does nothing, but if I stick the cursor in the address bar and hit enter it loads right up. And AFAIK it's only a problem with links from calcgames.org, which is probably the strangest part. Edit: Does http://tifaq.cjb.net/ work? [Edited by Ray Kremer on 31-Aug-05 23:03]
Andy Administrator Posted: 31 Aug 2005 14:17 GMT Total Posts: 939	Worked for me. Perhaps your host doesn't like all the referalls from us?
allynfolksjr Administrator Posted: 31 Aug 2005 14:49 GMT Total Posts: 1892	All four are down now. :-\ But the other FAQ link does, perhaps we should point to that?
Lunchbox Carrier Posted: 31 Aug 2005 21:06 GMT Total Posts: 2007	all but the third work for me.
Ray Kremer Ultralisk Posted: 1 Sep 2005 10:32 GMT Total Posts: 310	Yeah, go ahead and use the cjb.net link for now, it's better than the alternative. More testing: http://www.technicalc.org/ http://www.technicalc.org/fpw/ http://www.technicalc.org/tiplist/ Edit:I've been informed that the link to my games page on http://education.ti.com/us/student/games/games.html doesn't work either and have confirmed it here. So it seems no links into technicalc.org work unless the page is already in your browser cache. However, pasting the URL in to the address bar of the browser works fine. I'm gonna go poke our hosting provider. [Edited by Ray Kremer on 02-Sep-05 03:43]
Ray Kremer Ultralisk Posted: 2 Sep 2005 13:17 GMT Total Posts: 310	Later I discovered that links from google, ticalc.org, and webring still worked. I reported it all to our webhost and here's the story: Currently, the bane of the internet is a phenomenon called 'referer spam'(sic). Automated bots send hundreds of thousands, even millions, of requests a day to servers with an 'avertising' payload in the refer section of the message. Generally, these 'refers' have messages about cialis, casinos, and other such spammy things. To make sure our systems don't fail, we've had to block requests that have these sorts of refer payloads. One of the patterns we match on is 'games' - and in fact, the people who are visiting your page are being refered from a site named games.html. So you are false-positiving our security measures. I went back through the logs and looked at the load caused by referers with 'games' in the refer address. The load caused by spammers is fairly low, so I have pulled that rule. Sorry for the inconvenience you've encountered - unfortunately, due to the nature of spam on the net, we don't really have a choice in doing so.
allynfolksjr Administrator Posted: 2 Sep 2005 19:08 GMT Total Posts: 1892	That makes sense, glad that it could be resolved, your FAQ is the most extensive by far to any other I've seen. Our local one is mainly something for quick responses to simple questions.
Ray Kremer Ultralisk Posted: 7 Sep 2005 14:02 GMT Total Posts: 310	Well thanks. Mine is for quick answers to (usually) simple questions too, it's just had a lot more time to accumulate lots of different entries. I should add the one here to the list of other FAQs I've got on the main page. I think my games page has an outdated link to your game guide too, I should fix that too.