[thelist] 403.9 error

[Ron_Senykoff at BEAEROSPACE.COM]

The Java applet is not the problem.  Applets execute on the client.  My guess is
that the host of this site has something set up to limit simultaneous
connections from a single IP address (all your students are going through some
sort of router/firewall).  Many download sites do this to prevent people with
bandwidth from leeching files like crazy and sucking up the server's bandwidth
as a result.

-Ron





McCreath_David <McCreath_David at xmail.asd.k12.ak.us> on 05/03/2001 03:34:58 PM

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Subject:  [thelist] 403.9 error



Hi, folks --

Need some help trying to resolve a server issue.

First some unincriminating (as in names have not been used, etc.)
background:

Some teachers in our district are working with a contractor on an
educational site. The contractor is using lots of frames and JavaScript and
several Java applets.

The site is being served by a company in another country. According to
NetCraft, it's running IIS4.0 on NT4 or 98. Presumably it is sharing the
machine with other sites.

Okay. The issue is that whenever a group of students try to access the site
simultaneously from one of the labs in our district, they all get 403.9
errors, which means "too many users", right?

So the contractor is calling me and telling me there's a problem with our
network. I have politely tried to explain that the problem is on *the
server* and told her that the students in the labs have no problem
connecting to any number of other domains simultaneously.

Now I need a reality check. Is there *anything* else that could cause an
IIS4 server to throw a 403.9? Could the Java applet menu be written in such
a way that *it* is causing the problem?

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks
David

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