I can't access virtualbox.org any more, they now show an error page saying "Payment Required", with status code 402.
Interestingly, if I change my user agent to "curl/7.70.0", I can browse virtualbox.org again.
They seem to be unhappy with my user agent specifically:
curl -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" https://www.virtualbox.org
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>402 Payment Required</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Payment Required</h1>
f30e3dfed1c9•1mo ago
I just downloaded VirtualBox-7.2.4-170995-OSX.dmg and Oracle_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-7.2.4.vbox-extpack with no problem.
SpikedCola•1mo ago
If you wouldn't mind, I would be curious - if you run the above curl command, do you get the same error?
It could be a combination of IP + user agent (+ something else) that's causing me trouble.
f30e3dfed1c9•1mo ago
I get this with your curl command:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>402 Payment Required</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Payment Required</h1>
<p>The server encountered an internal error or
misconfiguration and was unable to complete
your request.</p>
<p>Please contact the server administrator at
www@virtualbox.org to inform them of the time this error occurred,
and the actions you performed just before this error.</p>
<p>More information about this error may be available
in the server error log.</p>
</body></html>
SpikedCola•1mo ago
Thanks for that! So it's most likely user agent then. Wonder why they don't like it.
SpikedCola•1mo ago
Interestingly, if I change my user agent to "curl/7.70.0", I can browse virtualbox.org again.
They seem to be unhappy with my user agent specifically:
f30e3dfed1c9•1mo ago
SpikedCola•1mo ago
It could be a combination of IP + user agent (+ something else) that's causing me trouble.
f30e3dfed1c9•1mo ago
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>402 Payment Required</title> </head><body> <h1>Payment Required</h1> <p>The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.</p> <p>Please contact the server administrator at www@virtualbox.org to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.</p> <p>More information about this error may be available in the server error log.</p> </body></html>
SpikedCola•1mo ago