[Olpc-open] More Announcements - OLPC GrassCon

[Denver Gingerich]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Alex Keybl <alex.keybl at duke.edu> wrote:
>
> On May 19, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Denver Gingerich wrote:
>
>> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Alex Keybl <alex.keybl at duke.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey all,
>>> It's great to hear about all the activity happening within the grassroots
>>> community in June!  I'm sure all of these events will facilitate greater
>>> communication among us.
>>> For the past few months, OLPC at Duke members have been preparing for an
>>> online
>>> conference as a platform for grassroots groups to talk about their
>>> contributions to One Laptop per Child.  That's how we came up with the
>>> OLPC
>>> Grassroots Web Conference <http://www.olpcgrasscon.com/> (GrassCon), an
>>> event we'll be hosting on July
>>> 19th.
>>
>> I get a "406 Not Acceptable" HTTP error when I visit the above web
>> site.  The full description is:
>>
>> "An appropriate representation of the requested resource / could not
>> be found on this server."
>>
>> This error appears to be related to the User-Agent string that is
>> passed in.  The User-Agent string on my browser (which causes this
>> error) is "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14)
>> Gecko/20080418 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.14".  I have verified
>> that it is a problem with the User-Agent string by using telnet and
>> sending a simple HTTP GET with that string.  Sending the request with
>> a "Mozilla/5.0" User-Agent string does not produce the error.
>>
>> Let me know if you'd like any further details to diagnose the problem.
>>  Thanks.
>
> Thanks for the heads up - I'm forwarding this on to our web hosting
> provider.  I'll let everybody know when things are back to normal.

The website is now working fine for me.  There may be User-Agent
strings for which it doesn't work, but at least it now works for mine
(it didn't before).

Denver