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Forbidden access to forums using Chrome

Postby packzap » 19 Oct 2012 04:22

I just got the following error when trying to login to forum.videolan.org with the Google Chrome browser, version 22.0.1229.94 (the latest) on a Mac.
Error 403: Forbidden

If you get this page trying to login or register on forums, it means our security system thinks you're using spam relay or your ISP address is blacklisted.
Luckily, i was able to pull up my version of Mosaic - er, i mean Firefox and logged in lickety-split.

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Re: Forbidden access to forums using Chrome

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 19 Oct 2012 08:58

There is something wrong in your Chrome version, maybe an extension that misbehave.
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Re: Forbidden access to forums using Chrome

Postby packzap » 20 Oct 2012 05:56

It was the ScriptNo extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... lahbdbdgdf).

Even when ScriptNo is partially disabled it won't let me login to the forums without the "error 403:forbidden" displaying. I had to fully disable in Chrome extension settings and now can login successfully to forum.videolan.org. Thanks for the help.

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Re: Forbidden access to forums using Chrome

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 22 Oct 2012 12:47

You are welcome.
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Re: Forbidden access to forums using Chrome

Postby DripFeed » 07 Dec 2012 16:50

I also just had a Google Chrome issue when as I was signing up (Nice forum by the way). The problem I had was that your Captcha wasnt appearing. I tried refresh a few time but to no avail. anyway I switched over to FF and here I am. Slightly odd because I beleive it is a Google engineered Captcha that you use - reCapcha isnt it? So theoretically it should work with Google's Browser Chrome. Rant over.


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