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More gracious errors on TPAC reg page #436

Closed samuelweiler closed 1 year ago

samuelweiler commented 1 year ago

Describe the issue

When an unaffiliated user tries to register for TPAC, instead of being told "you're not eligible to attend TPAC. If you think you are, here's how to sort that out", they get a 403 Forbidden error, specifically:

"Access Denied The server returned a "403 - Forbidden" error. You do not have sufficient privileges to access the page that you requested..."

To reproduce

Logged in as a test user, load https://www.w3.org/register/tpac2023/form

Expected behavior

I want a gracious error message that tells people how to address the issue.

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jean-gui commented 1 year ago

The message is now more informative: Screenshot_20230721_161421

samuelweiler commented 1 year ago

@jean-gui Thank you!