As mentioned last time there are always a few blogs’ feeds that we have problems fetching, ultimately giving up until we one day find a solution. Usually they’re either 403 Forbidden errors, or difficulties connecting to the domain, despite the feeds being visible/downloadable in a web browser. But for more than a week, all the feeds we track that are hosted at TypePad have been returning 403 errors. This means that, along with other failing blogs, we can no longer display the latest posts for TypePad blogs.

Some of these TypePad feeds are directly served from typepad.com, and others redirect from a typepad.com URL to a feed hosted elsewhere (such as Feedburner or Feedblitz). But all of them return a 403 error when accessed by our crawler, or when using curl on the command line. Th