Banned in Bahrain
Aussie Dave | Jul 05, 2006 | 3 comments
Esra’a from Bahrain writes:
Dave, I write to inform you that I’ve been trying to access your site lately and have been receiving the 403 Forbidden error. Apparently access to your website is “denied.” I doubt it’s from your server. This isn’t a server error. Any other website in Bahrain that’s been banned receives this error, so I fear that your site might be amongst them.Is it your host or our state-owned ISP?
Let me know. If I try to access this website in several other areas of Bahrain and fail, I will organize a petition.
And then this follow-up email:
Just called a few friends to check it out.Your site’s definitely banned!
I have to check with our main ISP whether the problem is technical or “political,” if I can call it that.
Cool! Now I can add the slogan Banned in Bahrain to this blog. Has a nice ring to it.
I have always wanted to be banned somewhere. It means I am doing something right.
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: Blog Announcements
I f I link to you can I get banned as well? Here’s my Muslim bashing article:
Why there are only 72 Muslim Virgins in Heaven
Congratulations!
403 is a server error. Your site does a digest authetication request when accessed here from the US; but just typing “nothing” does return the site. If for some reason, the digest security was not accepted by your site, you’ll get a 403 error.
If a site is blocked it will just time out. Unless everyone is forced through a proxy server; which I doubt very much.