Wget gives 403 (forbidden) on RHEL3 default page

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

Hi,

To my surprise I see that "wget" (and also the Nagios check_http
plugin, not using "wget" AFAIK) gives a 403 (forbidden) error
when accessing the default page (http://localhost/) of a freshly
installed RHEL3 system.

But any web browser I tried (including "links") and also "curl"
work fine with the default (welcome) page!

Confused... what is causing this difference in behavior?

Thanks,

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