[nmglug] Mac air

[Brian O'Keefe]

Thanks Leopold, I'll try the fix. I can also access the website but I'm 
running Ubuntu 19.04. The website may just require a newer browser 
version. Is that possible?


On 10/22/19 5:01 PM, leopoldo at maciasnetwork.com wrote:
> 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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