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RoadKingLarry

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Question for the web gurus
« on: August 06, 2015, 09:16:15 PM »
Using the new win10 version of IE I was logged into a commerce website doing some online shopping. Suddenly got a 403 error and can't access the website from my desktop. Cleared cookies, cleared cache restarted the PC still get 403 error.

Downloaded Firefox, imported bookmarks etc from IE. With firefox I get:

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Oops! We had an event occur that has caused a brief misstep.
Please refresh your browser.
Sorry for any inconvenience, we will work to resolve this for you based on the message we have received about this event.

Again cleared cookies and cache same problem.

I can get to the website via my smartphone but not from my tablet over the Wifi connection.

WTF?
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Re: Question for the web gurus
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2015, 09:38:47 PM »
Resetting the wifi router and modem has cured the problem. Still wondering what the heck was going on with it. Not something I've ever seen before.
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Re: Question for the web gurus
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2015, 09:39:42 PM »


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Re: Question for the web gurus
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2015, 10:20:47 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on August 06, 2015, 09:38:47 PM
Resetting the wifi router and modem has cured the problem. Still wondering what the heck was going on with it. Not something I've ever seen before.


Brownout  ???
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Re: Question for the web gurus
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2015, 11:01:18 PM »
It's not you, it's them.  A 403 can mean a lot of things but most of them are configuration errors on the server side.  The only exception is if you're going out of your way to try and read things on the server that you shouldn't be seeing.

Another one is if the server is just plain too busy it'll toss back a 403.
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Re: Question for the web gurus
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2015, 11:16:25 PM »
I was wondering that myself but if I accessed it from my phone and bypassed the DSL it went through OK. After resetting the modem/wifi router I'm able to login OK.
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Re: Question for the web gurus
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2015, 11:22:31 PM »
If your DSL is like mine, it just randomly does that sort of thing.

The "information goat trail"  :laugh:
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Re: Question for the web gurus
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2015, 11:37:52 PM »
Could be, 1st time I've seen anything like this though.
I wonder if my provider could be playing games with my service... Big push to get everyone moved over to U-verse/IPDSL I'm one of less than 50 customers (I counted) out of my office still on the old ATM DSL equipment.
They're on a big push now also to get everyone that gets an employee discount to bundle our services and get on auto-pay for phone/cell/internet and now DirectTV (a wholly owned subsidiary of at&t) or we won't get our (significant) discount.
Guess I ought to just go ahead and get assimilated. At least that way I can replace my 10+ year old modem/WiFi router.
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Re: Question for the web gurus
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2015, 12:37:14 AM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on August 06, 2015, 11:16:25 PM
I was wondering that myself but if I accessed it from my phone and bypassed the DSL it went through OK. After resetting the modem/wifi router I'm able to login OK.

I'd chalk that up to a round robin system sticking you to a specific server.  Your phone got stuck to a different one that wasn't overloaded.  When you bounced your modem maybe you got a new IP or maybe the round robin front timed you out and gave you a new server.  Either is plausible.
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