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Igel

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9. My students got 403 errors today trying to access some sites that worked fine last year.
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 09:36 PM
Thursday

The district's security filters were updated to preclude student access. I could see things just fine when logged in as a teacher.

I've run into 403 errors on my home computer but my cell phone is granted immediate access.

My favorite is when Chrome gets a 403 error but Firefox doesn't.

Denial is usually server-side, but if something's funky on your end--bad credentials of some sort, for example--403 it is because you're not trusted. Sometimes it's just that server-side somebody's let expectations grow a bit stale so what's expected isn't the current "thing".

Clear your cache, check your malware security and ad blockers, and reboot. Then try. (And maybe the server should see a bit of maintenance.)

Even the Wayback Machine didn't just lose access--it was spotty for a while, then failed.

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