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20050223 e mërkurë shkurt 23, 2005

TextDrive hosting does not like java user-agents

The details are in my post to the ROME dev mailing list: it seems like mod_security, as configured at the TextDrive ISP refuses http get with a user-agent containing the string "java"!

How how should java people interpret that?
I guess as a compliment: if mod_security forbids java in the user-agent, it means that even spammers and rogue spiders ended up dumping Perl for their nasty http business to use java instead: java everywhere;-)

After Ivan Ristic's knowledgeable comment, I changed the title of this post, from mod_security does not like java user-agents to TextDrive hosting does not like java user-agentsto better reflect the fact that it's TextDrive's configuration of mod_security that is at fault and not mod_security in itself (I had assumed mod_security's default configuration was the culprit). Sorry for the wrong title Ivan: I've read many excellent things about mod_security:-)

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This post title should read "TextDrive hosting do not like java user-agents" :) mod_security is completely neutral - it only does what it is instructed to by the configuration. I even like Java - I've built a Java version of ModSecurity ;)

Posted by Ivan Ristic on shkurt 23, 2005 at 03:47 PD PST #

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