weird 403 (forbidden) website access issue

[Marc Lehmann]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:07:11PM +0100, Richard Tobin <richard at inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> If you give a browser the numeric IP address, it won't know what
> Host: header to send.

HTTP/1.1 specifies exactly what to send in that case, namely the uri-host,
which would simply tbe the IP address in this case - URLs with ip literals are
perfectly fine and work with HTTP/1.1.

It might still be cause of a problem on the server side, but browser
behaviour is pretty much inversally the same for this case.

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