www.mail.com gives 406 Not Acceptable error

[j_ds_au]

Trying to access www.mail.com gives the following error message :

Not Acceptable

An appropriate representation of the requested resource could not be found on this server.

Additionally, a 406 Not Acceptable error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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Nothing is shown in the Developer Tools Web Console

Joe.

[Moonchild]

Sounds like their webmaster is blocking Pale Moon.
If that's the case it is usually possible to work around (if the block is user-agent based) with a site-specific user-agent override, but the real solution would of course be if mail.com stops blocking Pale Moon

[Goodydino]

I doubt that it is a user-agent problem. I tried with a fake Windows Chrome UA and got the same result.

[therube]

Ditto.
I tried, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.23, & still nonsense from www.mail.com.

Then, in SeaMonkey, (where www.mail.com does load, normally) I changed SM's UA to, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Goanna/6.8 Firefox/128.0 PaleMoon/33.9.0, & www.mail.com still loaded as expected.



(As it was, yesterday, mail.yahoo.com forced a new "agreement" on me, & after that my no-javascript version was "upgraded" to their upgrade version, which is utter trash, *and*, still did not work, fully, *and* ran like utter crap, literally taking minutes to open a mail message - if it opened at all.

At some point in the day, many hours later, all returned back to normal, & my no-javascript version was back working as expected.)

[Moonchild]

Looks like they are choking on Pale Moon's "accept" header. 406 tends to be thrown in that case. Maybe another case of having acceptable video formats for navigation requests?