Can't access this forum outside EU
Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 8:46 am
Just been informed a colleague outside EU can no longer access this forum since last night, mobile and desktop...
PureBasic Forums - English
http://www.purebasic.com
https://www.purebasic.fr/english/
Can't access this forum outside EU
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Re: Can't access this forum outside EU
Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 8:52 am
I'm outside the EU (Australia) and I've been able to access it every day (I visit several times each day because I have nothing better to do).
Re: Can't access this forum outside EU
Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 9:06 am
There is no restriction in place on our side.
Re: Can't access this forum outside EU
Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 10:06 am
Does your colleague use some weird antivirus/firewalls that intercepts HTTPS traffic, a VPN or a Proxy? Because I am quite sure the "Forbidden" message does not originate from the purebasic.fr server.
Re: Can't access this forum outside EU
Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 10:09 am
Maybe the browser is in developer mode and sends a user-agent of Apple iOS devices?
I can't access the PB and SB boards from Europe on my iPhone since the last DOS attacks and get the same error...
So there are restrictions in place on the web server.
I can't access the PB and SB boards from Europe on my iPhone since the last DOS attacks and get the same error...
So there are restrictions in place on the web server.
Re: Can't access this forum outside EU
Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 10:21 am
Yes, iPhone are restricted for now, but it's not location related.
Re: Can't access this forum outside EU
Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 10:22 am
lolFred wrote: Tue May 20, 2025 10:21 am Yes, iPhone are restricted for now, but it's not location related.
Why is that?Re: Can't access this forum outside EU
Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 10:45 am
Because I don't have one 
. Many request comes with generic iphone user agent, so it's filtered
. Many request comes with generic iphone user agent, so it's filteredRe: Can't access this forum outside EU
Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 10:56 am
No restrictions from where I am in North America, either phone or desktop.
Re: Can't access this forum outside EU
Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 12:17 pm
I get the same Forbidden message on an older Ubuntu (18.04) / Firefox (113.0.2).
Works fine on Ubuntu (24.04.2) / Firefox (138.0.3).
I'm in Germany.
On the older system:
- only doesn't work for the english forum. french, german, blog, purebasic.com work fine.
- even the english forum works fine via RSS feed in Thunderbird.
- it's only since yesterday or so, worked before, no system update/changes.
Request Headers:
Response Headers:
Works fine on Ubuntu (24.04.2) / Firefox (138.0.3).
I'm in Germany.
On the older system:
- only doesn't work for the english forum. french, german, blog, purebasic.com work fine.
- even the english forum works fine via RSS feed in Thunderbird.
- it's only since yesterday or so, worked before, no system update/changes.
Request Headers:
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GET /english/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.purebasic.fr
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/113.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Code: Select all
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 11:08:26 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 199
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Re: Can't access this forum outside EU
Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 12:30 pm
You need an up-to-date browser to access the forums to avoid old bots
Re: Can't access this forum outside EU
Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 5:42 pm
I am in EU and my phone doesn't access this forum but my desktop works thought ....
Re: Can't access this forum outside EU
Posted: Wed May 21, 2025 2:17 pm
I propose to ban Fred for not being inclusive 
Re: Can't access this forum outside EU
Posted: Thu May 22, 2025 1:32 pm
No problem here in the Caribbean (Cayman Islands).
Re: Can't access this forum outside EU
Posted: Thu May 22, 2025 5:04 pm
Using Win8 with Chrome browser version 109.0.5414.168
I can access everything but the PureBasic forum. I'm doing banking, discord, eBay, Amazon, YouTube etc. on the same machine without any problem. But can't access the PureBasic forum.
I can access everything but the PureBasic forum. I'm doing banking, discord, eBay, Amazon, YouTube etc. on the same machine without any problem. But can't access the PureBasic forum.