My first thought was that an error in the 4xx range was an authentication/authorisation error (henc the suggestion of blacklisted Tor exits). Error 403 states that your request was authenticated but the server refused to return content to you. This would be expected for blacklisted IPs but as you stated, using clearweb IP addresses you got similar behaviour and thus would reduce the chances that this is due to blacklisting. The fact that you get a 403 means that the operating System is not suffering any issues as it is passing the request up to the daemon software (in this case nginx if the http headers are to be believed). So nginx itself is functioning well enough to return the 403s and therefore my guess is that it is refusing some requests in order to avoid increasing load. I would expect this is by design in order to avoid uncontrolled failure of the daemon. Of course, some of the above is guesswork and so I could be completely wrong :D On 13/10/15 18:50, Shelley wrote:
On October 13, 2015 3:14:22 AM Oshwm <oshwm@openmailbox.org> wrote:
My guess is the 403s are probs related to blacklisted Tor exit nodes :(
I'd wondered about that too, so before posting I tried it without Torbot (for science.) Same thing. Intermittent errors are not an uncommon occurrence at Wikileaks, especially right after posting new info of wide interest. There are many mirrors for when the .org site is down as well.
-Shelley
On 13 October 2015 09:53:31 BST, Shelley <shelley@misanthropia.org> wrote:
A few days old, but I didn't see it up on Cryptome.
I'm getting intermittent 403s when trying to access the main page at https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip3/. If so, try going to the first page of the document which gives you the option to download the entire pdf: https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip3/WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter/page-1.html
Direct link to pdf: https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip3/WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter/WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chap...
-Shelley