Needed for bug 68122.
legoktm@terbium:~$ curl --proxy url-downloader.wikimedia.org:8080 -i http://extdist.wmflabs.org/
HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
Server: squid/2.7.STABLE7
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 02:38:57 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 1217
X-Squid-Error: ERR_ACCESS_DENIED 0
X-Cache: MISS from url-downloader.wikimedia.org
X-Cache-Lookup: NONE from url-downloader.wikimedia.org:8080
Connection: close
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-W3CDTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>ERROR: The requested URL could not be retrieved</title> <style type="text/css"><!-- %l body :lang(fa) { direction: rtl; font-size: 100%; font-family: Tahoma, Roya, sans-serif; float: right; } :lang(he) { direction: rtl; float: right; } --></style> </head><body> <div id="titles"> <h1>ERROR</h1> <h2>The requested URL could not be retrieved</h2> </div> <hr> <div id="content"> <p>The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL: <a href="http://extdist.wmflabs.org/">http://extdist.wmflabs.org/</a></p> <blockquote id="error"> <p><b>Access Denied.</b></p> </blockquote> <p>Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.</p> <p>Your cache administrator is <a href="mailto:root@wikimedia.org%W">root@wikimedia.org</a>.</p> <br> </div> <hr> <div id="footer"> <p>Generated Sat, 19 Jul 2014 02:38:57 GMT by url-downloader.wikimedia.org (squid/2.7.STABLE7)</p> <!-- ERR_ACCESS_DENIED --> </div> </body></html>
legoktm@terbium:~$ curl --proxy url-downloader.wikimedia.org:8080 -i http://tools.wmflabs.org/
HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
<same error message>
Bugzilla searching finds bug 40596 in which Mark said: "Access to Wikimedia hosts was and remains blocked, for security reasons."
I'll file an RT ticket for this.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7929