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Posted by Mwuricon D Malamute on Wed, 2006-12-06 23:29
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Location: York, PA

I keep getting a page that reads "precondition failed". Its not a big problem cause I can just use internet explorer without AOL.

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Posted by Giza (Douglas Muth) on Thu, 2006-12-07 00:00
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Upon investigation, it looks like AOL's browser violates the HTTP specification. (D'oh!) I have a special module installed that blocks machines that do that because more often than not, it is a spammer using a poorly written bot to spider websites.

I just whitelisted that IP, but be aware that AOL uses a bunch of different proxies so you may see this again.

If it becomes a problem I'll just disable the module, as we can't justify blocking legitimate users.

(Also, I moved this off into the Beta Testers forum. And perhaps I should rename that forum to something that makes a little more sense...)
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