   Problem with my 1&1 site. / spy icons  / help!
  I cant get to it!I can still log in to the site admin stuff, and I can still ftp to it to load up files and stuff, but when I open my browser and try to go to the site itself, I get one of those 403 Forbidden messages.Whats worse, if I look at the source of the forbidden message, it has all these tiny little images called "spicons" probably as in spy-icons.Whats going on?!Here is the source from the 403 error page I get: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><html><head><title>error!</title></head><body bgcolor="White" text="Black"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" height="100%" border="0"><tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><table  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td rowspan="5" valign="top"><img src="/spicons/forbidden.jpg" width=163 height=177 alt="" border="0"></td><td  colspan="4"><img src="/spicons/mrblue.gif" width="500" height=2 alt="" border="0"></td><td><img src="/spicons/undercover.gif" width=1 height=2 alt="" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4" valign="bottom"><img src="/spicons/ecke.gif" width=14 height=43 alt="" border="0"></td><td valign="middle" align="center"  rowspan="2"><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" width=470 border="0"><tr><td><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="5" color="Red"><b>error 403: Forbidden!</b></font><br><img src="/spicons/undercover.gif" width=14 height=5 alt="" border="0"><br></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="Black">The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD NOT be repeated.</font><br><br></td></tr></table></td><td rowspan="2" width=2 align=right><img src="/spicons/mrblue.gif" width=2 height=146 alt="" border="0"></td><td><img src="/spicons/undercover.gif" width=1 height=132 alt="" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td><img src="/spicons/undercover.gif" width=1 height=14 alt="" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><img src="/spicons/mrblue.gif" width=486 height=2 alt="" border="0"></td><td><img src="/spicons/undercover.gif" width=1 height=2 alt="" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><img src="/spicons/undercover.gif" width=486 height=27 alt="" border="0"></td><td><img src="/spicons/undercover.gif" width=1 height=27 alt="" border="0"></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>The most ennerving lines are: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD NOT be repeated.andimg src="/spicons/undercover.gif" width=1 height=2 what the heck is an image of size 1 by 2 anyway? And why is it called undercover?[edited by - AndreTheGiant on February 12, 2004 1:50:03 PM]
quote:Original post by AndreTheGiant  Whats worse, if I look at the source of the forbidden message, it has all these tiny little images called "spicons" probably as in spy-icons. ROFL!  That seriously made me LOL at work, beautiful line B-) ;quote:Original post by Imperil  quote:Original post by AndreTheGiant   Whats worse, if I look at the source of the forbidden message, it has all these tiny little images called "spicons" probably as in spy-icons. ROFL!  That seriously made me LOL at work, beautiful line B-)   Small images in combination with cookies can be used for ''spying''. ;  Ok yea but my point was that 1&1 is a very respectable company. Why would thier servers be serving up this spy crap? Why would I be getting 403 Forbidden messages when going to my own website? Wouldnt that mean that someone would have to have hijacked  my site or something?Can someone please explain in more detail, because I''m not quite sure what is going on, but I know its something bad. ;  99.99% of the time you get what you pay for.ATS ;quote:Original post by drewslater  99.99% of the time you get what you pay for.ATS   Unless you go in on the free deal they had the previous month. ;quote:Original post by aftermath  quote:Original post by drewslater   99.99% of the time you get what you pay for.ATS   Unless you go in on the free deal they had the previous month.   That''s what I''m referring to.ATS ;quote:Original post by drewslater  quote:Original post by aftermath   quote:Original post by drewslater    99.99% of the time you get what you pay for.ATS   Unless you go in on the free deal they had the previous month.   That''s what I''m referring to.ATS   Ok normally I agree that you get what you pay for but not in this case. Sure I paid 0$, but I have the EXACT same package as what most other people pay 1000$ for. So if I get what I pay for, i should be getting 1000$ worth.  ;quote:Original post by AndreTheGiant  Ok normally I agree that you get what you pay for but not in this case. Sure I paid 0$, but I have the EXACT same package as what most other people pay 1000$ for. So if I get what I pay for, i should be getting 1000$ worth.    ...You can''t access your site, and apparently 1&1 is installing snooping cookies on your computer.  But you''re right, you''re getting what some people pay thousands for.CM ;  Let''s see. This $1000 hosting package you have with 1and1 has been giving you 403s for how long? A few days so far Im guessing. For $1k/yr I would be outraged if my webhost pulled this shit. And isn''t this the deal where you had to call and leave them a phone number where they could call you back so they could make sure you didn''t give a bogus #?(to telemarket your phone presumably) I think I remember this deal. Not to mention the "spicons". No offense but I wouldn''t be so much pround of scoring this deal as amazed that somebody out there is actually paying $1000 for the service you describe. As long as its not critical your site is always available then it might be worth it. For me I''d rather use a host like powweb where for ~$8/mo I get extremely reliable hosting and I don''t have to worry about them selling my contact information to anyone and everyone to cover the costs(profit from?) of my bandwith. On the other hand, if I was able to do it with a totally bogus name/email/phone# I probably would have jumped on it.ATS 