alt Hacker NewsIs the entire utcc.utoronto.ca return 403 or just utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks? Maybe it's no longer common knowledge, but the ~string part typically means it's hosted in a way so individual unix users can somewhat control their own environments, sometimes with .htaccess files or other things, and adjust the responses from the web-servers somewhat.
Anyways, the point being that it might not be the university doing it, but an individual user. I guess the former would be kind of shitty, but the latter is maybe ok as individuals should be able to chose freely?
FWIW, both the domain at large + this specific URL seems to work fine for me in Spain.
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pitched • today at 1:09 PM
You got it, it’s just ~cks not letting me in. The University itself is still good.
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The "server" header says it's apache, so there could be a .htaccess file in that directory with the rules for that.
Trying to load any url under ~/cks/ starting with .ht gives a generic "Forbidden" response, and other urls like .foo give a "Not Found" error.