[fpc-pascal] Wiki etc.- where?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote on Thu, 25 Feb 2016:
> 
>> http://www.freepascal.org/ points to http://wiki.freepascal.org/ for 
>> the wiki, which is giving me a permanent 403 "Forbidden".
>>
>> Anybody know what's going on?
> 
> Should be fixed now. You were caught by a rule I added for certain 
> spambots. I didn't think there were still real people out there using 
> Firefox 17.0 :)

Thanks very much Jonas, I'm in :-)

A more pressing reason for rejection might be that one of the ISPs we 
use has utterly superb tech support etc. but has also been implicated in 
various spambots etc.

The reason for v17: I've got a cluster of machines here that I was 
hoping to use to resurrect LinuxPMI (OpenMOSIX) which due to kernel 
compatibility requirements are still on Debian "Lenny"; the newest 
browser I can run on that is 17, which runs with scripting etc. locked 
down. I could obviously run something on a network-connected system over 
SSH etc., but the convenience of being able to have documentation etc. 
immediately to hand is substantial.

In practice, I suspect that I'm not going to manage OpenMOSIX: there's 
too much kernel hacking involved, and I've got too much else on my 
plate. I can't put a timescale on it, but that implies that on x86 
(etc.) I'll probably jump onto something fairly current before too 
long... but minority platforms like Solaris will probably be stuck on 
old browsers indefinitely.

Knowing now what the problem is, I'd entirely sympathise if you chopped 
older browsers again at short notice. But a more informative error 
message would be appreciated :-)

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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