forums.spacebattles.com returns (403) error about fanficfare

[idiotcommerce]

@mokunonet sorry for mis understanding. thank you

[idiotcommerce]

i think it is downloading for me.
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/psa-fanficfare-can-download-stories-on-sb-sv-for-offline-reading.350081/

then i reached here

then this page i reached

i clicked this it is downloading

[mokunonet]

there must be something strange with my local config, I tried that and got this instead:
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HTTP Error in FFF '403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://forums.spacebattles.com/login'(403)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/psa-fanficfare-can-download-stories-on-sb-sv-for-offline-reading.350081/

[mokunonet]

i think it is downloading for me. https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/psa-fanficfare-can-download-stories-on-sb-sv-for-offline-reading.350081/ then i reached here

then this page i reached

i clicked this it is downloading

are you trying to download calibre from forums.spacebattles.com ?

[JimmXinu]

I'm not seeing any problems with SB using a similar set up.

FFF will only try to login on SB for member-only stories or if you have always_login:true. If you have a bad user/pass, you should be prompted to enter user/pass.

With a 403 error, I suspect you are using a VPN that doesn't work correctly, or being blocked by the site.

[idiotcommerce]

i did not even login. i just searched on google with yout provided site and tried. i share the images.

[JimmXinu]

I was answering @mokunonet.

[mokunonet]

I didn't even consider turning VPN off b/c I had no problem getting to the site via browser, that fixed it.

thank you so much

[mokunonet]

P.S. if you are willing, I'd be really curious to know why the VPN caused trouble for FFF but not via browser

[JimmXinu]

I don't know for sure--it's happened many times now, but nobody ever mentions what VPN they are using--at least not that I remember.

I speculate that you are using something I would not consider a 'real' VPN.

A real VPN does network address translation and should be completely invisible to everything in the OS above the network level. Ideally, it should happen in the networking hardware, like routers.

I believe some things like browser plugins, etc call themselves VPNs while really being web proxies or just hijacking web requests in the browser. These do not appear to be complete implementations in many cases, especially not working correctly with HTTP POST requests.

[mokunonet]

I use surfshark, it has some options which implement how you're describing, but I thought I had those off. It appears as a separate ethernet adaptor under "Network Connections" if that means anything?

[idiotcommerce]

bro , i am not that as you talented. i did not use any vpt till now. because of any malware or insecurity. normally websites are running. my self i created 3 websites using wordpress. and some plugines and used tmd hosting. but u coded entire website it is very herd for me