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#40 Project homepage answers with http status code 403

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2015-02-02
2014-11-27
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The project homepage always sends status code 403 (Forbidden) - you can see this when opening http://cjson.sourceforge.net/ with e.g Firefox and look at FireBug's "Net"->"HTML" tab.

Since the server still sends along the page's HTML, most browsers will display the page correctly; in our case for example the validity check in our documentation system always came back negative for this url, though.

Discussion

  • Dave Gamble

    Dave Gamble - 2015-01-28

    Why is this a problem?
    Is this a problem I can solve?
    Is this an issue for SourceForge to solve?
    Why does this matter?
    Why are you scraping the page?

     
  • Johann Studanski

    We're not scraping it, just making sure it still exists so we have no broken links in our documentation, and so that we can correct links to external resources that have been moved.

    I don't actually know if and how you can solve it, I've never hosted anything on sourceforge myself, but since this doesn't happen for all pages there, I suppose it's a problem with yours specifically ;)

    It doesn't really matter to us, we can make the link plaintext or link to e.g. https://sourceforge.net/projects/cjson/ instead, I just thought I'll let you know the error exists.

    Cheers,

    Johann

     
  • Dave Gamble

    Dave Gamble - 2015-02-02

    Please use https://sourceforge.net/projects/cjson/

    cjson.sourceforge.net isn't being maintained.

    Dave.

     
  • Dave Gamble

    Dave Gamble - 2015-02-02
    • status: unread --> closed-fixed
     

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