Can't get onto DU with my laptop. FIXED itself this morning.

[rzemanfl]

Last edited Wed Mar 22, 2023, 07:36 AM - Edit history (1)

I get “403 Forbidden” message. I am running Windows 11 and have cleared my cache. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. my 403 forbidden message just cleard..

[rzemanfl]

2. I will try waiting it out for a bit.

Clearing cache and cookies didn’t help.

Thanks for your reply.

[Kali]

3. ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/101312796

[rzemanfl]

6. Thank you!

My iPod Touch gets on DU just fine but is too small for my 75 year-old eyes if I use it for more than a few minutes,

[Kali]

8. I hear that!

I get squinty on the desktop!

[TexasTowelie]

4. Have you completely closed out your browser and relaunched it?

I'm on a Windows 10 desktop and using Brave as my Web browser. I've run into the formatting issue several times and this solution has worked each time for me. The only disadvantage is that you have to log into all of your accounts again (DU + others) so have your passwords handy.

[rzemanfl]

7. Yes. This appears to be something on

DU’s end.

[usonian]

5. For a well-run site, 403's are almost always temporary hiccups.

Non-techies may be astounded by the different devices, internet "hops", and software (thousands of lines of it) that a simple request traverses. Any glitch in any piece of software, or any router or other device can slow or stop your request until it's fixed.

I just found 12 hops to DU from my computer.
Interestingly, www.democraticunderground.com turned out to be
www.democraticunderground.com.cdn.cloudflare.net
So cloudflare is in the mix, as well, and cloudflare is a complete mystery to me.

And there are more hops inside cloudflare and from cloudflare to the DU servers.
Any caching server (cdn means content delivery network) is subject to invalid cached content as pages change behind it. So is the cache in your browser, which is why people say to clear caches.

[Prairie_Seagull]

9. My firefox updated itself today and while I did not get any errors-

I did have trouble with the GUI. It appeared to be older version of the site or something. Was like this for a few hours and now is corrected. Firefox updated version is 111.0.1