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  • BitBucket Seem To Be Blocking A Specific Version Of Firefox

    From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Monday, January 19, 2026 05:46:26
    Here?s a weird thing: as of a few days ago, bitbucket.org seems to be
    blocking a specific version of Firefox. Or rather, it looks to me like
    a bug rather than a deliberate block, because you get a 404 error
    (page not found) trying to access something as simple as the home
    page, instead of a response that says ?keep out? more explicitly, like
    a 403 error (access forbidden).

    I have verified that the problem is down to the user-agent string,
    which means I can reproduce it with a simple wget command, without
    actually involving Firefox at all. Here?s a command to reproduce the
    error, using the exact same user-agent string as my current version of
    Firefox would present:

    wget --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Linux x86_64; rv:146.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/146.0" https://bitbucket.org/

    If I fiddle with that user-agent string in various ways (like changing
    the version number), the access will succeed. You can try this for
    yourself.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Monday, January 19, 2026 20:19:03
    On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:46:26 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

    Here?s a weird thing: as of a few days ago, bitbucket.org seems to be blocking a specific version of Firefox.

    I have verified that the problem is down to the user-agent string,
    which means I can reproduce it with a simple wget command, without
    actually involving Firefox at all.

    Fixed now.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)