checklink

[oliviaheart]

Hello,

 

Whenever I enter any link to a website on my server,

I get: Error: 406 Not Acceptable

 

All other websites work fine,

And robots are allowed.

 

Do you know why this is?

 

 

Thank you for reading.

[David Dorward-3]

Olivia Heart wrote:
> Whenever I enter any link to a website on my server,
> I get: Error: 406 Not Acceptable
>  
> All other websites work fine,
> And robots are allowed.
>  
> Do you know why this is?

Probably because your web server is configured to reject whatever
requests checklink is making. Possibly because it makes HEAD requests,
possible because of the user agent.

You didn't provide any URL so it is impossible to experiment.

(Please direct responses to the www-validator mailing list, not directly
to me).

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David Dorward                               <http://dorward.me.uk/>

[oliviaheart]

Hi, sorry about that.

A URL is: http://so-pink.org

[David Dorward-3]

oliviaheart wrote:
>
> Hi, sorry about that.
>
> A URL is: http://so-pink.org

I've done some prodding by constructing HTTP requests by hand using a
telnet client. I've come to the following conclusion:

Checklink uses the Library for Web Programming and so sends a user agent
header that includes the string "libwww-perl/5.805".

Your webserver claims that "An appropriate representation of the
requested resource / could not be found on this server." when that
string appears in the user agent header.

(Please direct responses to the www-validator mailing list, and not
directly to me. Thanks)

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David Dorward                               <http://dorward.me.uk/>