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I also noticed it seems blocked from access outside the US... so what would happen if a traveling american wants to access it? edit: FYI I'm trying from Kenya
by demarq 10y ago
I also noticed it seems blocked from access outside the US...
so what would happen if a traveling american wants to access it?
edit: FYI I'm trying from Kenya.
edit2: Using my phone I'm able to switch between wifi, and mobile and on mobile it is unblocked. hmmm
Also for those who don't see the Access Denied page but are curious, here is what it reads in full.
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Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://serve-403-www.senate.gov/" http://serve-403-www.senate.gov/" on this server.
Reference #xx.xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx
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It seems it has little to do with geography. It's an IP thing.
- klez 10y agoNope, I'm in Italy and can access it from here.
- aavotins 10y agoNot blocked in the Netherlands, but it opens the https version , which displays the following error: The submitted https request was not able to be completed at this time. Please retry your request using http. This may require disabling some browser based plug-ins. Clicking the provided link causes a redirect loop(i.e. the http version redirects back to https)
- zyx321 10y ago>Clicking the provided link causes a redirect loop Disabling HTTPS-Everywhere fixed that for me.
- nihonde 10y agoI can see the http version in Japan.
- reustle 10y agoI can't see either version in Tokyo. Both give me access denied.
- nihonde 10y agoThat's odd. I'm on Softbank for both broadband and mobile.
- renegadesensei 10y agoI am in Tokyo and both versions are blocked for me.
- nihonde 10y agoI'm in Nagoya. Maybe that is the reason? It's so odd——I just confirmed that this works for me: http://www.senate.gov/index.htm http://www.senate.gov/index.htm
- joantune 10y agoPortugal, no probs, are you confusing 'blocked' with the stupid message redirecting to http? Which country are you in? now i'm curious? China?!
- alien3d 10y agonothing issue malaysia for http if https The submitted https request was not able to be completed at this time. Please retry your request using http. This may require disabling some browser based plug-ins.
- sdiq 10y agoJust tried from Kenya and did not see any "ACCESS DENIED". This is what I am seeing: "Request unable to be completed. The submitted https request was not able to be completed at this time. Please retry your request using http. This may require disabling some browser based plug-ins." Maybe something to do with your browser? Edit: typo.
- gcb0 10y agoor that is the very man-in-the-middle attack https would have prevented... we will never know.
- rhyzomatic 10y agoNo problems from Hong Kong.
- sxg 10y agoI'm a traveling American, and I can't see it in Singapore.
- pmontra 10y agoIt works from Italy.
- camoby 10y agoIt's more likely that the server isn't expecting a bunch of techies from hackernews to be hammering it! :)
- kelnos 10y agoThat looks like an Akamai error message (yup, www.senate.gov is a CNAME for e483.g.akamaiedge.net). Akamai has a bunch of (frankly ridiculous) heuristics for developing IP blacklists. So likely whatever network you're on got blacklisted for some inscrutable reason.
- dest 10y agoSame message here (France). Are you a Tor node by any chance?