{"id":231,"date":"2006-11-01T10:37:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T14:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2006-11-01T10:37:13","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T14:37:13","slug":"nyt-503-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"NYT, 503, Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have for some time been frustrated that I could not access stories in the <em>New York Times<\/em> from home. I could reach the front page, but every time I tried to read individual stories, I would get an <span class=\"caps\">HTTP<\/span> 503 Error &#8220;No server is available to handle your request&#8221;. I had assumed this was some arcane paywall\/blacklist thing to punish the English but stumbled on the answer through Usenet this morning: that error message is what the <em>Times<\/em> gives you when your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\">browser<\/a> is set to reject third-party cookies. Informative, huh! Why not just come out and tell the truth? <span class=\"loony\">&#8220;Your browser is configured to make it difficult for advertisers to spy on you. So we refuse to show you any of our content&#8221;? <\/span> At least, that way, readers could make an informed choice.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have for some time been frustrated that I could not access stories in the New York Times from home. I could reach the front page, but every time I tried to read individual stories, I would get an <span class=\"caps\">HTTP <\/span>&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}