Re: Preference Expired
On 2020-03-02, Larry S. wrote: > I was suddenly denied access to Fox News. Checked my settings, and > discovered that one preference expired today, and another one > tomorrow. Permissions was blank. (No others expired for quite a > while.) > > Now what? How do I get an updated preference for that particular site? > > Larry On 2020-03-10, Larry S. wrote: > Still get the message "You don't have permission to access Fox News on > this server". Any thoughts on what to do now? > > I tried changing cookies to "Session Only", didn't work. I tried > changing my UA string to read Firefox 72.0.1, didn't work. > > Any other thoughts? > Larry I can't reproduce this myself. But, from what I have found on the web so far, this might be blacklisting by Akamai (which is used, among others, by Fox News). Akamai has a small javascript-driven text explaining this[1] and they provide a tool to check the "reputation"[2]. You could try this tool to see if this is indeed the problem. A couple results from other sites[3,4] have some information as well. [1] https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/article/Why-is-Akamai-blocking-me [2] https://www.akamai.com/us/en/clientrep-lookup/ (requires javascript, might show a captcha and takes some time to load the results) [3] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/197753 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15688362 -- Nuno Silva ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Preference Expired
Larry S. wrote: Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Larry S. wrote: Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Larry S. wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 3/2/2020 1:11 PM, Larry S. wrote: I was suddenly denied access to Fox News. Checked my settings, and discovered that one preference expired today, and another one tomorrow. Permissions was blank. (No others expired for quite a while.) Now what? How do I get an updated preference for that particular site? Larry Are you sure it was a preference and not a certificate? Preferences do not expire. You are, of course, correct. It was cookies, not preferences. A couple of cookies expired in the last day or so. Do they matter in terms of access to the Web site? (My access to Fox News was o.k. until today.) Larry It may be something other than cookies. My cookies are session cookies only and I can view Fox News ok. At the end of each session they are all deleted. You could try changing your UA string to Firefox 72.0.1 instead of FF 52.0 and see if it helps. How would I do that? Larry In the url bar, enter about:config Enter general Look for general.useragent.override and click on it. Enter Firefox/72.0.1 Close and reopen SM and see if Fox News now works. Make note of the changes that you made in case they do not work and you have to remove them. O.K., it didn't work. Still get the message "You don't have permission to access Fox News on this server". Any other thoughts? And--how do I reverse the entry that I made? I entered SeaMonkey in the space where I put Firefox, but I don't see any effect. Larry Did you make written notes of your changes? If so then reverse what you changed or just clear the override line. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Preference Expired
Hartmut Figge: >Curious as I sometimes be I have tried to get that message. First asking >ixquick about Fox News and then visiting https://www.foxnews.com/politics > >No problem with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) >Gecko/2020030200 SeaMonkey/2.53.2-h For testing I have changed my UA to yours. Still no problem. Hartmut, next back to my own UA ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Preference Expired
Larry S.: >O.K., it didn't work. Still get the message "You don't have permission >to access Fox News on this server". >Any other thoughts? Curious as I sometimes be I have tried to get that message. First asking ixquick about Fox News and then visiting https://www.foxnews.com/politics No problem with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/2020030200 SeaMonkey/2.53.2-h Hartmut ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Preference Expired
Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Larry S. wrote: Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Larry S. wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 3/2/2020 1:11 PM, Larry S. wrote: I was suddenly denied access to Fox News. Checked my settings, and discovered that one preference expired today, and another one tomorrow. Permissions was blank. (No others expired for quite a while.) Now what? How do I get an updated preference for that particular site? Larry Are you sure it was a preference and not a certificate? Preferences do not expire. You are, of course, correct. It was cookies, not preferences. A couple of cookies expired in the last day or so. Do they matter in terms of access to the Web site? (My access to Fox News was o.k. until today.) Larry It may be something other than cookies. My cookies are session cookies only and I can view Fox News ok. At the end of each session they are all deleted. You could try changing your UA string to Firefox 72.0.1 instead of FF 52.0 and see if it helps. How would I do that? Larry In the url bar, enter about:config Enter general Look for general.useragent.override and click on it. Enter Firefox/72.0.1 Close and reopen SM and see if Fox News now works. Make note of the changes that you made in case they do not work and you have to remove them. O.K., it didn't work. Still get the message "You don't have permission to access Fox News on this server". Any other thoughts? And--how do I reverse the entry that I made? I entered SeaMonkey in the space where I put Firefox, but I don't see any effect. Larry ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Preference Expired
Larry S. wrote: Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Larry S. wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 3/2/2020 1:11 PM, Larry S. wrote: I was suddenly denied access to Fox News. Checked my settings, and discovered that one preference expired today, and another one tomorrow. Permissions was blank. (No others expired for quite a while.) Now what? How do I get an updated preference for that particular site? Larry Are you sure it was a preference and not a certificate? Preferences do not expire. You are, of course, correct. It was cookies, not preferences. A couple of cookies expired in the last day or so. Do they matter in terms of access to the Web site? (My access to Fox News was o.k. until today.) Larry It may be something other than cookies. My cookies are session cookies only and I can view Fox News ok. At the end of each session they are all deleted. You could try changing your UA string to Firefox 72.0.1 instead of FF 52.0 and see if it helps. How would I do that? Larry In the url bar, enter about:config Enter general Look for general.useragent.override and click on it. Enter Firefox/72.0.1 Close and reopen SM and see if Fox News now works. Make note of the changes that you made in case they do not work and you have to remove them. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Preference Expired
Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Larry S. wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 3/2/2020 1:11 PM, Larry S. wrote: I was suddenly denied access to Fox News. Checked my settings, and discovered that one preference expired today, and another one tomorrow. Permissions was blank. (No others expired for quite a while.) Now what? How do I get an updated preference for that particular site? Larry Are you sure it was a preference and not a certificate? Preferences do not expire. You are, of course, correct. It was cookies, not preferences. A couple of cookies expired in the last day or so. Do they matter in terms of access to the Web site? (My access to Fox News was o.k. until today.) Larry It may be something other than cookies. My cookies are session cookies only and I can view Fox News ok. At the end of each session they are all deleted. You could try changing your UA string to Firefox 72.0.1 instead of FF 52.0 and see if it helps. How would I do that? Larry ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Preference Expired
Larry S. wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 3/2/2020 1:11 PM, Larry S. wrote: I was suddenly denied access to Fox News. Checked my settings, and discovered that one preference expired today, and another one tomorrow. Permissions was blank. (No others expired for quite a while.) Now what? How do I get an updated preference for that particular site? Larry Are you sure it was a preference and not a certificate? Preferences do not expire. You are, of course, correct. It was cookies, not preferences. A couple of cookies expired in the last day or so. Do they matter in terms of access to the Web site? (My access to Fox News was o.k. until today.) Larry It may be something other than cookies. My cookies are session cookies only and I can view Fox News ok. At the end of each session they are all deleted. You could try changing your UA string to Firefox 72.0.1 instead of FF 52.0 and see if it helps. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Preference Expired
David E. Ross wrote: On 3/2/2020 1:11 PM, Larry S. wrote: I was suddenly denied access to Fox News. Checked my settings, and discovered that one preference expired today, and another one tomorrow. Permissions was blank. (No others expired for quite a while.) Now what? How do I get an updated preference for that particular site? Larry Are you sure it was a preference and not a certificate? Preferences do not expire. You are, of course, correct. It was cookies, not preferences. A couple of cookies expired in the last day or so. Do they matter in terms of access to the Web site? (My access to Fox News was o.k. until today.) Larry ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Preference Expired
On 3/2/2020 1:11 PM, Larry S. wrote: > I was suddenly denied access to Fox News. Checked my settings, and > discovered that one preference expired today, and another one tomorrow. > Permissions was blank. (No others expired for quite a while.) > > Now what? How do I get an updated preference for that particular site? > > Larry > Are you sure it was a preference and not a certificate? Preferences do not expire. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Trump says U.S. considering restrictions at Mexican border over coronavirus -- Reuters News (1 March) Per Reuters, Mexico has reported 60 cases of COVID-19. Per the Canada Broadcasting Corporation, Canada has reported 24 cases. Why is not our northern border also being closed? (News reports as of 2 March) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Preference Expired
I was suddenly denied access to Fox News. Checked my settings, and discovered that one preference expired today, and another one tomorrow. Permissions was blank. (No others expired for quite a while.) Now what? How do I get an updated preference for that particular site? Larry ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
