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Pat Chanezon: The details are in my post to the ROME dev mailing list: it seems like mod_security, as configured at the TextDrive ISP refuses HTTP get with a user-agent containing the string 'java'! How how should java people interpret that? I guess as a compliment: if mod_security forbids Java in the user-agent, it means that even spammers and rogue spiders ended up dumping Perl for their nasty HTTP business to use Java instead: Java everywhere ;-)"

I burned several hours trying to figure out why Roller Planet (and specifically the Triangle Blogs Aggregator) wouldn't work against Textdrive hosted blogs, only to learn that the reason is an anti-Java filter. So my interpretation is %@#(*&!!! Textdrive is not our friend. They don't support Java and they appear to be actively filtering out Java clients. Perhaps I'm wrong and mod_security is the culpret?

PS. By changing my user-agent string to "Roller Planet 1.1-dev" (I considered the user-agent string "Textdrive sucks" but that's just rude), I was able to get beyond the filter.