Comments on: Problems with access to Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/07/problems-with-access-to-overlawyered/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:14:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: Locked-out Overlawyered readers, in Australia and elsewhere https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/07/problems-with-access-to-overlawyered/comment-page-1/#comment-29840 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:14:57 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7322#comment-29840 […] quite a while I’ve been getting complaints that readers in other countries — Australia, in particular — are locked out of […]

]]> By: kimsch https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/07/problems-with-access-to-overlawyered/comment-page-1/#comment-25655 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:50:41 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7322#comment-25655 There’s a WP plugin called enforce www preference. it provides 301 redirects to queries with /index.php and enforces your use or non-use of www. This also means that it doesn’t matter what your readers put in the address bar… It’s been working for me for quite some time.

I haven’t had issues accessing your site.

]]> By: Pete Warden https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/07/problems-with-access-to-overlawyered/comment-page-1/#comment-25652 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:23:58 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7322#comment-25652 Very strange. One thing to watch out for is that the canonical address for Overlawyered appears to be http://overlawyered.com/ rather than https://www.overlawyered.com/
If you go to the www prefixed version, it issues a ‘permananent redirect’ that changes the URL in the address bar and directs the request there.

I was hoping that using the numeric IP address ( http://63.247.141.23/ ) might be a temporary solution, but it looks like your server is using virtual hosts and looking at the textual host name to work out what to return.

One possibility is that someone, somewhere in the pipeline is incorrectly caching pages between your server and the users. A quick test for that theory is to try adding a dummy ‘?’ to the end of the URL, eg
http://overlawyered.com/?

This question mark is ignored by your server, but bypasses any caches since they can’t know that it isn’t really a different page.

The LiveHTTPHeaders Firefox extension can be useful for debugging these sort of issues. If any of your readers are able to consistently reproduce the problem, and they’re willing to install that extension, I’m happy to talk them through the simple steps for gathering the information and look through the resulting logs.

]]> By: Larry Sheldon https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/07/problems-with-access-to-overlawyered/comment-page-1/#comment-25651 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:14:12 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7322#comment-25651 Do they use a proxy server? The same one?

If not, it is your server that does not like their Ip addresses.

If they do, it is the proxy server(s) issuing the rejection–probably on IP address.

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