Comment by pitched

11 hours ago

The site is returning Forbidden for me and they seem to have also blocked archive.* sites. A bit of a mean thing for a public university to do.

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embedding-shape  10 hours ago

Is 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.

  • extraduder_ire  6 hours ago

    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.

  • pitched  10 hours ago

    You got it, it’s just ~cks not letting me in. The University itself is still good.

dredmorbius  9 hours ago

Wayback has it: <https://web.archive.org/web/20260602133826/https://utcc.utor...>

Archive Today presently does not, and I'm getting hung up on Captcha tests trying to submit a bug report. Present broken archive: <https://archive.is/Nv9Ik>. If someone else could submit a "Bad Grab" report I'd appreciate it.

Edit: Re-reading the archived error page: ~cks specifically blocks Archive.Today, which is unfortunate.

(In general, check popular archive tools, such as the Internet Archive (above) or Archive Today, and post a working link rather than griping about individual site access issues.)