403 Forbidden

[Steel_Stallion]

Hey guys, its been happening so often now when i visit the site now its annoying. Alot of the times i come to the site, it suddenly says 403 - Forbidden. and i cant enter the site, weird thing is later it just goes away, untill i click on a link twice (E.G going to see a topic) then it gives me the God damn 403 - Forbidden again.

Wtf. its not with my internet, because it only happens on this site. I just hope it doesnt happen when i post this.

 

[Ralle]

That sounds weird. But I think it has something to do with how many connections to the site you have. You can have a maximum of five connections. Anything above will result in this.
So if you download and chat etc. it might occur

 

[Steel_Stallion]

Nope, ive never had more than 2. And even then, its happened with 1. Ill post again when it happens, RIGHT NOW its fine.

 

[Kimbo]

I get some slow down moments that are at near puase but no 404 forbidden.

 

[HINDYhat]

I just got one RIGHT now.

 

[Gilles]

Never had an error. Sometimes the site won't load for me. As if the browser can't find it. I just wait a few minutes and try again, then it usually works.

 

[Samuraid]

I've only seen it happen once, and that was when I was opening a bunch tabs at once. I am quite sure, as Ralle stated, that it has to do with the number of connections you have open to the site, as the webserver software currently allows a maximum of 5 simultaneous connections per IP address.

 

[Unscrewed_Magic]

I have only had it happen after I tried to customize the settings on Firefox to make it go faster.

 

[brad.dude03]

I've never had it happen to me. I got page cannot be displayeds a few hours ago, but other then that, no 403's.

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

Wow, I usually have about 7 or 8, when I'm skimming over subscribed threads and never get this...

 

[Steel_Stallion]

I got it again T.T. Its not that big of a problem i can just wait for a bit and come back then it goes away.

 

[wd40bomber7]

Its probably caused by external ip-address conflicts. I'm betting the hive uses ip-addresses to decided when to give that error. Sometimes/Mosttimes it'll track the ip-address of a node instead of an individual. Main type of node: A router, a proxy, etc. I'm not sure what node is used for dial-up but I'm almost certain its not home-based, meaning you could be tracking several people under one external ip-address.

Edit: Fixed a typo

 

[Samuraid]

Its probably caused by external ip-address conflicts. I'm betting the hive uses ip-addresses to decided when to give that error. Sometimes/Mosttimes it'll track the ip-address of a node instead of an individual. Main type of node: A router, a proxy, etc. I'm not sure what node is used for dial-up but I'm almost certain its not home-based, meaning you could be tracking several people under one external ip-address.

Edit: Fixed a typo

That would generally happen in a few cases:
#1) Someone is using a direct proxy (bad idea anyway)
#2) Someone's ISP uses a proxy configuration (I'm looking at you AOL) and the server software does not check the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header
#) Multiple users are sitting behind a firewall that uses port address translation to route all requests through a single public IP address

In any of the above cases, there's not much we can do about it. However, MOST of the uses here probably don't fall into categories #1 and #2. And those who are using #3 probably won't see any problems unless they have a ton of people on their private LAN all browsing the site at the same time.

Even so, it may be possible to increase the limit in the future if people continue to have problems AND if Hive's servers are able to take the increased load of more connections hitting the site.

 

[Steel_Stallion]

Well, its still happening. But randomly, i just leave it for a while and i can browse the site normally afterwards. Its not getting better but not worse either.

 

[wd40bomber7]

Whats your connection/provider? It might have something to do with the problem. Your provider my have allocated nodes for your area. So multiple THW goers might be surpassing max connections for THW. (When I say in your area, I mean a large area)