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Hi all,

I have the weirdest issue with Summit for the last 2 days. Every post with an external link produces a 403. The attached screenshot has an example.

If I copy the url from the error message I can open it just fine in my browser.

  • Summit version 1.73
  • Android version 16
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[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

As a temp. workaround, go to Settings > Misc > Client user-agent. Choose "Use test user agent".

[–] narp@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks! Do you know if sth. should be changed on the instance or is it more summit-related?

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure honestly. The issue doesn't seem to happen on other instances so maybe something needs to change on the instance. It looks like they are blocking clients based on user agents and it didn't like Summit's default user agent.

I was supposed to do some work at some point to figure out the best user agent to use but I have not gotten to it yet.

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Can confirm, works for me. Thanks!

[–] Niiru@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Same.

~~Could be a feddit thing according to this thread, though~~ https://feddit.org/post/22424345

It's not. .world also has this problem

[–] narp@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

How did you confirm that .world has the same problem, is there a thread?

The reason I'm asking is that I thought the same at first but if you check the URL it's from feddit.org even if it's in a world community (I think Lemmy works this way: feddit.org downloads the picture from .world and then hosts it for the feddit.org users).

[–] Niiru@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, you are right. It's feddit.org

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Could I know more about that Zealand man?