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403 - Site inaccessable on IE9 Windows 7 #53

Open 1f47a opened 5 years ago

1f47a commented 5 years ago

Site is returning a 403 status when attempting to access the page using Internet Explorer 9.

It seems to be using the User-Agent to identify the browser so you can reproduce this issue by changing your User-Agent to something like Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/5.0)

apokryfos commented 5 years ago

That's actually an IE 7 user agent but the point is still valid since I do direct users to this site to urge them to upgrade their outdated browsers (based on the HTML5 boilerplate code).

Blocking outdated browsers seems like a bit of a contradiction to the intention of this site.

andrewteg commented 3 years ago

I noticed this with IE8 when firing up a Windows 7 VM to run some old software. A site of ours told me to head to browsehappy as we direct users with IE there as well and it doesn't load on the IE8 that comes with a new Windows 7 install. I was hoping browsehappy would stay backward compatible a while but I guess that's not the plan?

EDIT: Noticing that even https://www.microsoft.com/edge doesn't work on IE8. Go figure!