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tjh011
19th March 2002, 01:02
I am trying to get into the Nero Burning guide to make sure I am doing everything right, but everytime I do I get this error:

Use of Internet Explorer with DigExt is prohibited on this site
Sorry if this inconveniences anyone, but DigExt is the "offline browser" capability present in IE 5.0
It is being misused by many people to crawl this entire site on a daily basis. This extension is very aggressive and uses as many connections as the server will allow, effectively blocking other users until it has finished. I (the site admin) therefore decided to block these browsers.
Current browsers use a less aggressive read-ahead method, if you upgrade to IE 5.5 or 6.0 you will not have any problems.

The link for the site is:
http://mpucoder.kewlhair.com/Derrow/nero.html

I am using IE 6.0. Why wont it let me acces this?

mpucoder
19th March 2002, 01:43
The blocking code looked for any browser with "DigExt" in the user-agent field. Since only the DigExt present in MSIE 5.0 is known to be a problem, the code has been modified to block only MSIE 5.0 browsers with the feature. You should be OK now.

For people interested in how this feature has been abused, you can visit http://archive.davin.ottawa.on.ca/modperl/1999-10/msg00877.phtml and http://archive.davin.ottawa.on.ca/modperl/1999-10/msg00883.phtml

tjh011
19th March 2002, 02:08
I still cant access the site. Is there a setting that I need to change? I am sure that I am using IE 6.0 but still havent that problem. Did I miss something in your last post?

mpucoder
19th March 2002, 03:51
According to my logs, the IP you used to post the last message was served the full page derrow/nero.html twice. First at 19:55:08 and then at 19:57:12 - so what you saw was in a cache somewhere. Try reloading the page or flushing your browser cache.
Or you could go to http://mpucoder.dynodns.net/derrow/nero.html to fool any AT&T caches

tjh011
19th March 2002, 04:10
Thank you!