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Just a guess: misconfigured Apache server doesn't handle https:// https:// URL's correctly, and redirects them to HTTP auth. (The server *is* Apache; it *is* a
by perihelions 5y ago
Just a guess: misconfigured Apache server doesn't handle https:// https:// URL's correctly, and redirects them to HTTP auth. (The server *is* Apache; it *is* a very old version; and the URL you provided *is* an 'http:// http://', which most browsers today will upgrade to 'https:// https://'... which breaks on this website. The server configuration is probably a best practice from several decades ago. If the website worked for you recently, most likely, your browser upgrade broke it).
This is a pretty common regression. If you can find a browser that doesn't force-upgrade TLS, that should be a workaround.
edit to add: wget works! (This is the only one I could get working; lame, I know)
$ wget https://yann.lecun.com/
--2022-04-18 ***-- https://yann.lecun.com/
Resolving yann.lecun.com (yann.lecun.com)... 172.67.171.76, 104.21.29.36, 2606:4700:3036::ac43:ab4c, ...
Connecting to yann.lecun.com (yann.lecun.com)|172.67.171.76|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Username/Password Authentication Failed.
$ wget http://yann.lecun.com/
--2022-04-18 ***-- http://yann.lecun.com/
Resolving yann.lecun.com (yann.lecun.com)... 172.67.171.76, 104.21.29.36, 2606:4700:3036::ac43:ab4c, ...
Connecting to yann.lecun.com (yann.lecun.com)|172.67.171.76|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘index.html’
index.html [ <=> ] 37.65K --.-KB/s in 0.001s
2022-04-18 *** (72.6 MB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [38556]