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Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://weather.gov/" on this server.
Reference #18.7d3ad8a2....etc...
Completely at my wits end with this. What on earth could cause that?
Tom
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You don't have permission to access "http://weather.gov/" on this server.
Reference #18.7d3ad8a2....etc...
I use weather.gov at least once/day with Pale Moon on Linux and I've never encountered that. What do you have your User Agent Mode set to (in Preferences > Advanced > General tab, under "Compatibility")?digitalaudiorock wrote:Starting today I CANNOT get to https://weather.gov, specifically in my Linux palemoon only.
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.9) Gecko/20100101 Goanna/3.4 Firefox/52.9 PaleMoon/27.9.4
Those are the useragent overrides that are set by default in Pale Moon. Previous problems with those sites led the devs to determine these specific useragents work the best for these specific sites.digitalaudiorock wrote:What I don't get is that there are a bunch of those already in there that I definitely did NOT add. Where would they have come from?
Ahhh....got it. Thanks for the explanation! I'm actually not sure what my default user agent is reporting.Nigaikaze wrote:Those are the useragent overrides that are set by default in Pale Moon. Previous problems with those sites led the devs to determine these specific useragents work the best for these specific sites.
You're very welcome. You can find that information under Help > Troubleshooting Information, in the "Application Basics" section.digitalaudiorock wrote:Thanks for the explanation! I'm actually not sure what my default user agent is reporting.
OMG...I think you just helped me figure out my original problem! That actually was empty for me. Somehow in about:config the string general.useragent.override had "user set" with an empty string. No clue how that got set, but when I reset that one I no longer need that override! Very odd. I recently tried the "Eclipsed Moon" user agent addon and frankly could NOT figure out how it worked. I think that might have somehow done that.Nigaikaze wrote:You're very welcome. You can find that information under Help > Troubleshooting Information, in the "Application Basics" section.digitalaudiorock wrote:Thanks for the explanation! I'm actually not sure what my default user agent is reporting.
There are a few misguided "guides" and "user pref files" out there that do this in an attempt to "improve privacy" by not sending a UA at all (empty string) -- needless to say that is a really bad idea because it makes you look like a broken bot or hacking script by not looking like an actual web browser. It makes sense that websites refuse access in that case.Nigaikaze wrote:You're welcome. Yeah, that is pretty peculiar. I'm glad you mentioned that, I'm going to have to file this for future reference whenever another one of these "access denied" threads pops up. Thanks!
Yea, it definitely does. I know for a fact I never did that myself. No clue what did unless something went wildly wrong while I was trying that Eclipse Moon plugin. Thanks!Moonchild wrote:There are a few misguided "guides" and "user pref files" out there that do this in an attempt to "improve privacy" by not sending a UA at all (empty string) -- needless to say that is a really bad idea because it makes you look like a broken bot or hacking script by not looking like an actual web browser. It makes sense that websites refuse access in that case.
Definitely not. As noted above this was without question caused by having an erroneous blank default user agent.therube wrote:Are you sure it's not a "www." issue?
Your link is https://weather.gov/.
What happens if you use https://www.weather.gov/?
Yup. I fixed it by using reset (thus removing it), though I still don't know what set it in the first place.therube wrote:And from the looks of it, a Pref set with a "blank" value, i.e., "", is different (at least for general.useragent.override) from that Pref, Reset.