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ASF Issues, Errors and Problems

Joe Blow

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Good morning everyone.

I am trying to diagnose a Chrome-related ASF login issue that a forum user is experiencing.

When the user tries to log into ASF using Chrome browser on a laptop running Windows 10 Professional, an error message is received that says:

Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access this resource


Is anyone out there experiencing a similar issue while attempting to log in to ASF?

If you are, please let me know in this thread.

Thank you.
 
Seen it a couple of times but I reset my modem and all good.
Also re booted and that worked once.
 
Good morning Joe.

I am having the same problem with Chrome.

Tried a re-boot to no avail.

Cheers, Rob
 
I'm wondering if this would work,
switch off modem completely and unplug from power,
Delete all cookies, cache, history etc in chrome ,
Shutdown computer
Switch on modem and let it re-establish internet connection, likely to take 5 minutes or so- wait for green light on internet led (should force a new IP address depending on config),
Start Windows computer
Have a go at login.

Failing that, the below won't hurt.


 
Unfortunately I haven't had much success as yet in diagnosing this issue. Although there are two people (so far) who are experiencing the error, we have many using Chrome who are not, so it's difficult to know why those who are affected have been affected.

I'll keep making enquiries to try and figure out what's causing this.

Would @Skate & @rnr please post screenshots of the error they are experiencing. That may assist me in figuring out what the problem is here.
 
just catching up today.

Same error on chrome so not sure what the issue is. I have swapped to Microsoft Edge and no issues

 
I'm wondering what you guys who are getting this error have in common. Same ISP? All using Ad Blockers? There must be something you all have in common that will explain this error.
 
Is this 403 error happening on every page of the website or just particular pages?
 
For me it is all pages, I have tried the following as an example


 
If it's any help guys, I am running Firefox and haven't had any issues of any significance.
 
This is what the host said:

 
This is out of my league but I have done the following with no success

- Updated Chrome - no change

- Found the TLS (whatever that is) as per below and enabled (was default) - no change





just a side note

I have chrome on my phone and when connected to the home wifi I can access the website, with no issues

This issue is only on my desktop which I turned on last night when I returned home from site, and as stated before edge works fine.
 
What ASF is on line! I've been getting the 403 Forbidden error all day and thought the ASF server was down.
Yes, I'm on Chrome, Win 10.

Now I'm using Edge, only after a friend suggested using another browser after seeing the error notice on Facebook. (I'm not a FB user.)

Chrome problem still there. I'd suggest that there's way more people using Chrome that haven't considered using another browser and waiting for the ASF server to be fixed.
 
I find it quite odd people use Chrome or Edge.
Mozilla Firefox has been default for years.
 
Firefox was OK for my first few years then developed lots of niggling issues. Moved to Chrome and stayed.
This was back when Explorer was popular.
 
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