Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Yog-sothoth Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: [Semi-OT] Odd ban by Sourceforge Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:05:12 +0000 (UTC) Organization: The Great Old Ones Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: btzSbNdicoes2Cp9dpihdQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Ph_nglui-mglw_nafh-Cthulhu-R_lyeh-wgah_nagl-fhtagn_1.3_i666-linux-gnu X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:30769 On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:41:22 +0000, Andreas Leitgeb wrote: > Yog-sothoth wrote: >> This is only tangentially related to Java programming, but it is >> somewhat urgent. It seems that Sourceforge has banned me from viewing >> certain parts of projects there. In particular, commit logs ("History" >> link from code repositories) and tags. Any attempt to view tags or >> commit logs for any project by me results in a page claiming "something >> went wrong", even though I didn't do anything wrong (in particular, >> it's simply point and click, and the links are internal to their web >> site, so not subject to linkrot beyond their control). > > Assuming a "ban" when some page doesn't work wouldn't be the first > thought for me... > > I don't have any own projects on sourceforge.net, but I tried some > project named "nagelfar", (which has no relation to Java at all), and I > could view the History just fine. > > That could mean either: > - Sourceforge had a problem, and they've since fixed it. I still can't view commit logs. Also, "Sourceforge has a problem" would not result in a few specific pages being defaced or otherwise altered in behavior, but in the whole site not working. What would selectively affect serving just a specific subset of pages whose URLs happen to match a particular pattern? A policy change. A random malfunction wouldn't care whether the path to the .html file on the filesystem happened to match some particular regex or not, and only affect requests for files that matched. It would affect all requests. > - You are using a browser that is too old, or too new, or has > itself a bug. Have you tried using a different one? I am using Firefox, probably the best supported and most compatible browser out there and certainly not one that Sourceforge would fail to test with. > - You were indeed banned. (In that case I'd be surprised that > you can even see anything on sf, so I'd consider this by far the > least likely possibility) I would expect a ban to let me *see* anything, but *do* (change) nothing, myself, but stranger things have happened. And again, that only the .html files matching a particular regex are affected points to an access policy change rather than a malfunction. > If there is a project that you still cannot see the History of, then > post its name (and avoid writing another two shiploads of > conspiracy-drivel). Now you are just being rude.