Thanks a lot Derek for this information.

I will try to investigate how to provide the usereAgent info when
requesting the url file. This may not be easy as Apache Xalan is used by
the Java API.

Best wishes for the end of year, seems you are in a nice place as I can see
the b

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Derek Merleaux <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I believe this is caused by some new blocking that LOC had to put in place
> after coordinated DOS attacks this past summer. The following helpful
> advice comes from the code4lib archive and is attributed to "Nate Trail" -
> also a quick short term fix is to download the latest xslt you need from
> loc and host it locally...
> -Derek
>
> For Security Reasons, the Library of Congress has begun filtering
> (blocking) HTTP requests that do not express a userAgent  in the
> header.
>
> Regular human access with a standard browser is not affected by this,
> because browsers attach a userAgent, telling the site the sort of
> software being used to make the request.
>
> However, some other services that do XML validation or access web
> resources without using a browser may have problems accessing the
> content.
>
> We know this is an issue and have worked to solve it for the XML
> standards we maintain, but there may be some stray files referenced by
> other schemas that continue to get blocked if a system tries to access
> that file without a userAgent.
>
> There are two things to do if you have a problem with a blocked file:
>
> 1)      Report the issue to us directly at [log in to unmask]
> <https://lists.clir.org/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A2%3DCODE4LIB%3Baad0eeb9.1607>
> .
> 2)      Where possible,  update the application you are using, to include a
> userAgent.
>
> We thank you in advance for your help.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Jean-Claude Dauphin <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > We are now getting HTTP response code: 403 when accessing  the Library of
> > Congress MODS and Dublin Core conversion stylesheets from a Java
> > application.
> >
> > javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: Server returned
> > HTTP
> > response code: 403 for URL:
> > http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/MARC21slim2MODS3-4.xsl
> >
> > javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: Server returned
> > HTTP
> > response code: 403 for URL:
> > http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/xslt/MARC21slim2OAIDC.xsl
> >
> > Does anybody else is experiencing this problem ?
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > JC Dauphin
> >
> > --
> > Jean-Claude Dauphin
> >
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> > http://kenai.com/projects/j-isis/
> > http://www.unesco.org/isis/
> > http://www.unesco.org/idams/
> > http://www.greenstone.org
> >
>



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