Constant 403 Errors

[stubuzz]

It has been happening for a few hours now.

[ourmanflint]

same here.

 

can't upload screenshots either, another error

 

[madmen]

The above 

[GrandPapillon]

same here, all the time, intermediate 403 Cloud Flare errors

[topt]

Same here. Now using a vpn and still getting it but refreshing the page eventually seems to bring it up. 

[lopburi3]

It has been unusable since about 1300 and only now sometimes getting forum to answer rather than 403 from cloudflare - still no notice to members that there is anything wrong or even an answer to this thread so suspect moderators are also locked out but the Nation home page seems to be working if anyone wanted to advise there were issues.

[Mavideol]

55 minutes ago, topt said:

Same here. Now using a vpn and still getting it but refreshing the page eventually seems to bring it up. 

I do think there is some type of censorship going (recently) around in Thailand as my regular  VPN connection is stopping, same here at TV....  without VPN no problem connecting to the Forums but as soon I connect via VPN the error pops up and can not access the Forums, already tried 4 different locations and the problem persists.... good by freedom of speech and freedom to access some naughty sites.... 555

[lopburi3]

Two minutes after posting above unable to edit as post moved/removed/too long ago (two tries) - systems in serious self destruct mode it seems.

At any are it is CloudFront not CloudFlare sending these connection refused messages.

[Mavideol]

21 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

It has been unusable since about 1300 and only now sometimes getting forum to answer rather than 403 from cloudflare - still no notice to members that there is anything wrong or even an answer to this thread so suspect moderators are also locked out but the Nation home page seems to be working if anyone wanted to advise there were issues.

censorship... good by freedom of speech, it became a province of China and they are following same protocols  555

[guzzi850m2]

Thankfully there are other things in life than Thaivisa forums, 555

[topt]

14 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

I do think there is some type of censorship going (recently) around in Thailand as my regular  VPN connection is stopping, same here at TV....  without VPN no problem connecting to the Forums

I cannot connect normally at all - only using the vpn do I eventually get through at the moment.

[RichardColeman]

Me too - probably just another prelude to more pop-ups Thai visa ads coming 

[lopburi3]

Several of us have found working OK if use Sidney VPN for some reason.  

[Andrew Dwyer]

I can connect without a VPN but it takes me 5 or 6 try’s.

[katana]

Ironically enough got a 403 error while initially trying to read this thread.

[moogradod]

• Cannot access "Support" and therefore cannot even report a irregularities
• However I can access the forums

And this all without VPN from both Destop and iPhone????

• But cannot access https://forum.thaivisa.com/discover/24/

[NE1]

Same here , 403 Error etc. On here now through VPN but still unable to contact support. " the page you are trying to use does not exist " or something along those lines.

[Pib]

Ditto to what people are saying about 403 errors...even if using a VPN connection with US IP address.   

[ubonjoe]

Same for me. Have to do several refreshes to get on a topic or forum. 

Not sure what is going on.

[lopburi3]

4 minutes ago, Pib said:

Ditto to what people are saying about 403 errors...even if using a VPN connection with US IP address.   

Give Oz a try.

[Pib]

Right now I have to hit the screen refresh approx 403 times to pull up a screen. ????

[HighPriority]

Not using a vpn and based in the land of oz and no problems coming and going all day, agree with comments about tv adds...

[2530Ubon]

Same here. Constantly refreshing gets it to work though:

 

Quote

403 ERRORThe request could not be satisfied.

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Request blocked. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner.
If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation.

 

 

Request AND TVF members could/cannot be satisfied!

Edited January 11, 2021 by 2530Ubon

[2530Ubon]

CloudFront - It's another thing from Jeff Bezos, so not surprising it doesn't work. Venturing out into every industry isn't panning out so well.

Edited January 11, 2021 by 2530Ubon

[anchadian]

19 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

Give Oz a try.

Yes, changed VPN to Perth and now no problems.

[CharlieH]

Been like it for me since mid day, out all afternoon, switched to an Aussie vpn and working.

[Peterw42]

This same thing happened  about a week ago for an hour or so. then came good, there was a thread running then with a few people commenting

Everyone doing page refresh doesnt help as the cloudfront  servers etc see it as a DOS attack

Edited January 11, 2021 by Peterw42

[Susco]

3 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

This same thing happened  about a week ago for an hour or so. then came good, there was a thread running then with a few people commenting

Everyone doing page refresh doesnt help as the servers etc see it as a DOS attack

 

A DDoS is a bit different from a few hundred people trying to refresh page at the same time.

 

If that was so there would be a 403 error 365 days a year.

 

By the way the same problem last week was all night for me, and today is also since about 3pm

[Dagfinnur Traustason]

I find it very funny that no one from support have answered in over 6 hours and have any kind of explanation for this happening. Rather useless to have this section in the forum.

[CharlieH]

3 minutes ago, Dagfinnur Traustason said:

I find it very funny that no one from support have answered in over 6 hours and have any kind of explanation for this happening. Rather useless to have this section in the forum.

Have you not considered that like most of us they were unable to access the forum.

 

Its been reported and is being worked on.