Apple using windows server for UK store?

[nathans89]

Not really sure here but it seems as though apple uses a windows server for when, in the uk store you search for your uni to get the education store...

URL: http://apple.procureweb.ac.uk/

Error message:

You are not authorized to view this page

The Web server you are attempting to reach has a list of IP addresses that are not allowed to access the Web site, and the IP address of your browsing computer is on this list.
Please try the following:

Contact the Web site administrator if you believe you should be able to view this directory or page.
HTTP Error 403.6 - Forbidden: IP address of the client has been rejected.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

Technical Information (for support personnel)

Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 403.
Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled About Security, Limiting Access by IP Address, IP Address Access Restrictions, and About Custom Error Messages.

Also dunno why my IP may have been banned?!?!

 

[aristobrat]

FWIW, it looks like Apple's using Procureweb(.ac.uk)'s services, and it's Procureweb that's running IIS.

 

[Brianstorm91]

You can only get onto the H.E. Store from your university's campus, that's why your IP is banned, otherwise, every Joe Bloggs in the country would be attending Oxford when they buy their new mac.