Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:33:20 -0600 From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: weird 403 (forbidden) website access issue Message-ID: <ba457b4a-3362-d9e0-4b8a-c6204937819d@dreamchaser.org>
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Totally bewildered by a 403 error attempting to access a website I created several years ago and haven't touched (or accessed) in ages. Administered and hosted at greengeeks.com 11.3-RELEASE-p6 Using firefox 74.0: The addr (www.ovandoschool.org) resolves to 69.175.87.226 If I type in 69.175.87.226 in the address bar, I get a 403 error with a note 69.175.87.226/cp_errordocument.shtml (port 80) Seems to be accessible fine from windows machines going through the same fbsd 11.3-RELEASE-P6 gateway (not the same system as the one with the browser having the problem). If I manually access from the failing fbsd system, it works: $ telnet 69.175.87.226 80 Trying 69.175.87.226... Connected to chi-node42.websitehostserver.net. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.ovandoschool.org HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: Keep-Alive X-Pingback: http://www.ovandoschool.org/xmlrpc.php Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Link: <http://www.ovandoschool.org/>; rel=shortlink Transfer-Encoding: chunked Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 19:04:40 GMT Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff 203a <!DOCTYPE html> etc. I have noscript installed, but if I turn off all restrictions for the accessing tab, I get the same result. I tried opera and get the same result, kinda; the tab shows a "403 Forbidden" error and I get a blank screen. I tried chrome but when it loads all I get is a blank window. Any thoughts on what might be causing this? Why would a browser report a 403 error when telnet doesn't? Thanks for any insights, Gary
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