cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/770637
Nitter link: https://xcancel.com/hkashfi/status/1995109785679573167
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2025
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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
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Why with Iran?
Presumably because instead of responding to the request for boobs.jpg with with an HTTP 404 error (meaning, "not found"), Iran's censorship tech returns a 403 error (meaning basically "you are forbidden from accessing this resource).
The "boobs" are "forbidden" you see; the tech mirrors the ruling party's moral stance, probably coincidentally. Trying the same
curlcommand in Russia and China will likely just get you a 404 error, so the joke really only works with Iranian servers. The 404 version is slightly less funny: "We couldn't find the boobs!"Hey, at least they’re using HTTP codes correctly.
They should change it to 80085 error.
Browsers don't know how to handle 80085
Either do most men now-a-days.
Hah! That's what she said. Poor her.
It's 403 because they are upfront about the resource being censored as opposed to unavailable, and they tell you who to contact if you have legigimate reasons to access it.
Overwhelming majority of countries don't do keyword-based blocking, especially not for incoming requests.