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thedays • today at 2:03 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

Not sure what others are seeing for this to be upvoted as I get this error message at this URL:

Aalto University web hosting service

nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi

403 Forbidden

Access denied by server configuration and/or resource permissions.


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dang • today at 5:03 PM

(we've changed the url - more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833578)

zczc • today at 2:15 PM

You can still browse the source archive at https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_b66a9391-dcf8-4399-8...

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dspillett • today at 3:08 PM

It seemed to be struggling earlier, perhaps it has hit some sort of bandwidth quota and the error response is an unhelpful 403.

I've seen that before, perhaps it counts as unauthorised because the server is not authorised to send when the quota is breached?. It isn't correct use of 403 (which implies the server knows the identity of the user, 401 is the more general state for unauthorised. Of the standard responses 503 (Service Unavailable) seems most correct.

eyeundersand • today at 2:14 PM

Same for me.

Piko • today at 2:09 PM

same. shame.