> It seems the premise is that those with a computer should be able to access others servers wholesale unconditionally. This premise is obviously wrong.
Yes, that is obviously wrong. Accessing a website doesn't give you anything like the ability "to access other servers wholesale unconditionally". Requesting files over HTTPS isn't a gorram root ssh session.
All a user-agent does is ask "Can I have file `/x` please?", "Can I have file `/y` please?", "Here is the data `foo=bar` for `/quux`" etc., etc., etc...
The server is free to say "200 OK" or "400 Fuck off" to any request it receives, at its own discretion, based on whatever rules the server administrator wants to put in place. Which they have the absolute capability to do. That is nothing like "unconditional wholesale access" to a server.
Yes, that is obviously wrong. Accessing a website doesn't give you anything like the ability "to access other servers wholesale unconditionally". Requesting files over HTTPS isn't a gorram root ssh session.
All a user-agent does is ask "Can I have file `/x` please?", "Can I have file `/y` please?", "Here is the data `foo=bar` for `/quux`" etc., etc., etc...
The server is free to say "200 OK" or "400 Fuck off" to any request it receives, at its own discretion, based on whatever rules the server administrator wants to put in place. Which they have the absolute capability to do. That is nothing like "unconditional wholesale access" to a server.