[nmglug] Mac air

[leopoldo at maciasnetwork.com]

Brian,
Assuming you don't have malware redirecting your traffic, here is a
link that explains the 403 error and some possible solutions:

https://www.howtogeek.com/357785/what-is-a-403-forbidden-error-and-how-
can-i-fix-it/

I checked the liveauctioneers.com website and it worked fine for me. If
you want, you can paste the exact address you went to here and we can
double check the URI.



On Tue, 2019-10-22 at 12:03 -0600, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
> Hello all,
> My wife has a 7 year old macbook air. She does all her business on it
> which is using Firefox for research purposes, email and report
> writing with LibreOffice. Recently she is getting a 403 Forbidden
> error for a specific website, liveauctioneers.com.
> Live auctioneers has suggested a cache or cookie issue so we cleared
> all those out. They suggested another browser so we tried Safari with
> the same error.
> I have searched the forums and nothing there is helpful, at least on
> my level. Can anyone figure why a specific website and only that
> website does not play well with the Mac Air? I have reset the router,
> as suggested by liveauctioneers. 
> So there is something configured in the laptop that is pervasive. I
> just don't know what to fix. The one website with detailed
> instructions was specific to wordpress but on the laptop, not in a
> browser.
> Can anyone help?
> Many thanks
> Brian
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