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SpikedCola | 2 months ago

I can't access virtualbox.org any more, they now show an error page saying "Payment Required", with status code 402.

Interestingly, if I change my user agent to "curl/7.70.0", I can browse virtualbox.org again.

They seem to be unhappy with my user agent specifically:

  curl -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" https://www.virtualbox.org 
  
  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
  <html><head>
  <title>402 Payment Required</title>
  </head><body>
  <h1>Payment Required</h1>

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f30e3dfed1c9|2 months ago

I just downloaded VirtualBox-7.2.4-170995-OSX.dmg and Oracle_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-7.2.4.vbox-extpack with no problem.

SpikedCola|2 months ago

If you wouldn't mind, I would be curious - if you run the above curl command, do you get the same error?

It could be a combination of IP + user agent (+ something else) that's causing me trouble.