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FORBIDDING ACCESS ?

George Wallace

George Wallace

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Are the Big Internet/Telcom Providers FORBIDDING ACCESS ?

I use Bell Sympatico and was surfing the Tech News and I came across sync-blog.com after trying to access one of their articles found in the MSN Sympatico News pages. 

There is an article:

October 3, 2009
iPhone gets popular BlackBerry feature. Which one?
by Marc Saltzman
One of the trendiest ways Blackberry users communicate is via “pinging” — fast, cheap and reliable real-time conversations via Blackberry Messenger. Now you can “ping” on your iPhone, for free.
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Click on the links and you get a 403 Forbidden message:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / sync / 2009 / 10/ ping-me-on-my-iphone-huh. on this server.


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Apache/2.0.54 Server at www.sync-blog.com Port 80
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Are Monopolies afraid ?
 
I'm on rogers and I was able to view the site without a problem.
 
Same error over Shaw. Maybe it's a Fireflox error.
 
Your Cell phone is constantly "pinging" Cell towers while it is on, whether or not you are using it (talking, texting or surfing).  Text messaging uses these bands.  Now it looks like you can also use voice on these bands. 

ModlrMike

I'm using IE7.  Same error when I try to access the article from the site; as well as any of the other articles on that site.
 
I'm on Sympatico High Speed as well, and I can't view it.

I'm with you on this one. Bell is evil.
 
I'm on Comcast down in the "the Capitol" - and I was also forbidden.  Land of the free my ass.
 
I suspect it's company damage control  etc.
It seems that product was suppose to be a secret until it's release.


http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/kevin_rose_accidentally_announces_diggs_upcoming_i.php

Kevin Rose Accidentally Announces Digg's Upcoming iPhone App

In a bit of "gotcha" journalism, interviewers Arnt Eriksen and Thomas Moen got Digg founder Kevin Rose to confirm that his company is developing an application for the iPhone.

When Eriksen referred to having seen a sneak preview of the application, Rose was visibly surprised. "I cannot show that off yet. You're not even supposed to know about that... Nobody knows about that."..........

 
kratz said:
I'm on rogers and I was able to view the site without a problem.
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Well, my Rogers rocketstick and I are forbidden ... the depth of conspiracy deepens.  :camo:
 
The "Forbidden" HTTP response is being generated by the web server which is hosting http://www.sync-blog.com - probably because the author changed the permissions on the linked page.

If the site were being blocked by anyone's ISP, the response would be completely different.
 
This is Google's cache of sync-blog.com. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 4 Oct 2009 20:54:12 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime.

TT October 3, 2009 at 10:18 pm
iPhone gets popular BlackBerry feature. Which one?
By Marc SaltzmanNo Comments .One of the trendiest ways Blackberry users communicate is via “pinging” — fast, cheap and reliable real-time conversations via Blackberry Messenger. Now you can “ping” on your iPhone, for free.



A new yet little-known downloadable app for the iPhone called Ping! is a clever iPhone-to-iPhone (or iPod touch) messaging service that lets users chat anywhere in the world instantly.

The interface resembles a typical SMS window but Ping! does not incur additional carrier charges.

In other words, Ping! is very similar to “pinging” or “BBMing” on a Blackberry smartphone.

And for a limited time, it’s free.

All you need to get going is your friend’s Ping! ID. Once you get a friend to give you their info, you can also link them to your iPhone or iPod touch’s address book so you can see their real name and photo when corresponding.

Give it a try here or if you’re got iTunes installed, click here.


Filed Under: Mobile Apps > Mobility > Wireless



 
as stated above

Error 403 Forbidden is Generated by the Web Server, not the provider

they probably changed the file location and the webserver thinks you are trying to access something that either doesn't exist and the security is set to deny all fishing requests to find hidden content

or

they changed the file permissions on who can access it, sometimes due to people hotlinking articles and bringing the webserver to it's knees due to overloading - hotlinking is where someone shares a link to a piece of a small obscure website on a forum with millions of members, the unexpected load overwhelms the server and/or connection.

If the providers were censoring content they would just tell the DNS to give you a "Page Not Found" message from.

Of course if any ISP did censor content it wouldn't be 24 hours before it hit the news and all their customers would cancel their service and go with another ISP who would advertize NO Censoring! to poach their competitiors customers

the only source that could make censoring a reality would be the government, so keep an eye on what the CRTC is up to... they have stated that they want to increase canadian content on the web... censoring would be about the only way to do that.
 
c_canuk said:
as stated above

Error 403 Forbidden is Generated by the Web Server, not the provider

they probably changed the file location and the webserver thinks you are trying to access something that either doesn't exist and the security is set to deny all fishing requests to find hidden content
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OK.

All the articles on that site bring up the same msg.

I'm sure the site administrator isn't that careless.
 
George Wallace said:
OK.

All the articles on that site bring up the same msg.

I'm sure the site administrator isn't that careless.
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Hmm... are you sure you're in the military?  Anyone who's used DND's networks knows just how careless/lazy/sloppy/incompetent administrators can be...
 
The content of the webpage isn't even all that earthshattering of a revelation.  Anyone who has had a BlackBerry has known about PIN to PIN messaging and pinging, which have an amusement factor of about five minutes.  Even shorter if you have a DND BlackBerry, which has PIN to PIN and messaging disabled completely through system policy.

I don't think the telcos are going to get too bent out of shape over the revelation of this capability on an iPhone.
 
George Wallace said:
OK.

All the articles on that site bring up the same msg.

I'm sure the site administrator isn't that careless.
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Excuse me?

no not all the articles are blocked, I just visited the page and don't have any problem accessing current links of the main page.

second of all it is COMMON PRACTICE to provide a generic 403 error for any and all requests for web pages that do not exist, and it is also common practice to do the same if the unique code granted to your browser on opening the main page is not present or expired when accessing a web page that exists to prevent hotlinkers swamping your web server basically stealing your bandwidth.

it is also possible that some articles on that site are PAY ONLY in which case trying to access them without first logging in will automatically generate a 403 if you don't have access.

403 errors are a commonly seen error on the internet, the only reason this one is big news is tin foil hat wearers who have no idea how the internet really works are looking for conspiracy where most likely none exist.

do you really think an ISP would get away with censoring an author? do you really think the author of the article would not immediately go the the news? do you really think that rival ISPs would not capitalize on a conservative estimate of 600 million(1 000 000 clients * $50 a month * 12 months) in revenue a year available by getting customers to switch... the same ISPs that phone you up at frequently at dinner time on the off chance that you are more irritated at your current ISP than you will be at them for bugging you and willing to transfer?

this is not the first time you have responded to me in a snarky way regarding technical matters in which I am a SME and you clearly are not.
 
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