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Dare I say an idiot is running the linked webserver….
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Precondition Failed
We’re sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /constantine/ on this server.
We have established rules for access to this server, and any person or robot that violates these rules will be unable to access this site.
To resolve this problem, please try the following steps:
* Ensure that your computer is free of viruses, Trojan horses, spyware or any other sort of malicious software.
* If you are using any sort of personal firewall or browser privacy software, check to ensure that its settings do not cause your web browser to inadvertently violate any of the rules listed below.
* If you are behind a Web proxy or corporate firewall, the proxy must conform to the HTTP specification with respect to proxy servers. Contact your network administrator if the trouble persists, or bypass the proxy and connect directly if possible.
* Disable any download accelerators you may be using. They don’t speed up your downloads anyway; in most cases, they actually run slower!
* If all else fails, try using a different Web browser, such as Firefox.
If you still need assistance, please contact badbots at ioerror.us.
More Information
For your reference, the conditions for access to this server are:
Robots:
* MUST read and obey robots.txt.
* MUST identify themselves properly; for example MUST NOT identify as Mozilla.
* MUST NOT pretend to be a human.
Humans:
* MUST NOT pretend to be a robot.
* MUST NOT use a computer infected with viruses, Trojan horses or other malicious software.
Both:
* MUST NOT harvest email addresses.
* MUST NOT attempt to send spam.
* MUST NOT attempt to compromise server security.
* MUST NOT use excessive amounts of bandwidth or other server resources.
The precondition on the request for the URL /constantine/ evaluated to false.
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I _am_ using firefox.. on a linux box. I’ll bet it’s the fact that I’m on linux.. that haX0r OS.. :)
John, I got the same message. Do you have another link?
I initially had the same problem, emailed the blogger who’d notified me about his site, and he fixed it. I’ll emial him again, so keep checking.
I’m not entirely sure why people are still encountering that message. When the site was initially set it two WordPress plugins were installed, one that deals with performance of the site and one that attempts to block spam. I disabled the anti-spam measure earlier, but I know that the performance enhancing plugin also references the anti-spam plugin.
For the time being I’ve disabled both of them until I can talk with the person who set the weblog up for me.
Can I suggest that people take a peek at the google cache in the meantime? I’m not sure exactlty what in there is what we’re looking at, as I just found the cache, but it is a start.
Constantine…
Whoever wrote that plugin isn’t very smart. I mean, there’s no way you can remotely tell if a host is virus free or not, yet that’s point #1 “make sure you’re virus free..”
The stuff about the proxy? Would have to be using a really crappy proxy to actually break the http spec.
And the suggestion.. I used firefox from multiple OSes and even logged into windows via WTS at work and used IE and it still failed.. so whatever he attempted to detect, he failed miserably.
I’d recommend staying far away from that plugin (and any written by the same person/people) for awhile and wait for others to be guinea pigs.
I know what you’re going through in regards to spam though. I run my own small blog and finally installed Scode for movabletype, which does the small jpg image of random digits that people have to enter to comment.. has basically ended all spam comments. Email, using latest spam-assassin and my own cronjob that uses the new sa-learn –spam bits on a folder I move anything I know is spam into nightly.
The one place I’m still having to fight regularly is referrer spam in my apache logs that shows up in my awstats. I even modified awstats and added code to not only use a blacklist on the URL itself, but it uses lynx to snag the text of the referred page and if it gets hits in there based on the same blacklist, will reject the page. Has helped a lot, but new stuff still sneaks through every week or two.
Didn’t mean to sound too mean either, but that’s the oddest error page I’ve ever seen. BTW, still getting today… firefox on linux and mac.
Constantine..
FYI, I did a sniff with ethereal while trying to load the page and it seems to be failing due to an unreassembled packet.. which you might be able to disable. These days. you’re likely to have a lot of fragmented packets anymore with the number of routers and ISPs any path goes though, not to mention firewalls, and such. Might even be on your end which would cause so many to fail.