weird 403 (forbidden) website access issue

Richard Tobin richard at inf.ed.ac.uk
Tue Mar 31 22:20:31 UTC 2020


> The addr (www.ovandoschool.org) resolves to 69.175.87.226
> 
> If I type in 69.175.87.226 in the address bar, I get a 403 error

...

> $ telnet 69.175.87.226 80
> Trying 69.175.87.226...
> Connected to chi-node42.websitehostserver.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.ovandoschool.org

If you give a browser the numeric IP address, it won't know what
Host: header to send.

-- Richard

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