Apple.com Is Down
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The battery is long dead so it's got to be plugged all the time, only when I kicked the cable out of the wall it sheared off the bit that plugs into the Newton and no one in this place has any other cables except lighting & usb c. A repair should be easy but those of us here in the data center have all kinds of certs but not much on the physical HW side of things. Tim's old so we got him down here real quick but it turns out he's not nearly as good with a soldering iron as Woz was.
A few years back we could have found a hobby jockey easy enough but it's a bit after hours and the usual folks that would hang around the local Radio Shack have nowhere to go these days.
We found a local lady that makes the most fabulous stained glass you could want and even though she's a diehard Android user she's agreed to come on over to stick that end bit back on the wire. She's not even going to charge us if we let her put a little glass android on the wall wart side of things. She's insistent on a good work-life balance though and won't come out until family time with the kids is over & her husband gets them off to bed, so it will just be another hour or so.
Anyway, sorry about the downtime. I'm as impressed as anyone that the Newton handles things so well but we should really invest in some sort of backup so the next time someone (well, me) gets to watching the latest Rings of Power episode on their phone they don't make the front page of HN by not watching where they're going as they make their way back from the vending machines (salt & vinegar chips, so it was still worth it.)
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Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
But other pages plenty of images are now 403.
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And are gradually turning into 200 on an individual basis... definitely feels like a CDN/Edge caching thing.
www.apple.com. 0 IN CNAME www.apple.com.edgekey.net.
Or https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ is the new style.
iPhone XV will have a text based menu to replace app icons.
All kidding aside, I rarely find that status pages seem to reflect reality when something is obviously broken on a main website of application. Anyone know why this seems to be the case? Perhaps my experience is just anecdata so I could be wrong.
It's weird there doesn't seem to be something like that for serving web pages.
But now I'm curious does anyone know what stack or cms they're using? All built and managed in house?
Over the years, I've watched their front-end change but for the most part, their page architecture has stayed the same. It's actually really nice from the point of view that they got something right, and didn't screw around with it every single year like how most front end web developers seem to do for the sake of doing it.
Their web pages, along with some of the other high class work on say, Awwwards, are a masterclass example of learning from top talent.
Can someone elaborate as to why this would be a 403 [2] error as opposed to maybe a 401?
[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/nWteVUn
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/403
401, Unauthorized, implies authentication (credentials).
Also weird that only some assets yield a 403, whereas others load. Maybe because the ones which load are still cached by the CDN, but on cache misses the files can't be fetched anymore.
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20050207085707/http://uptime.net...