Virtualbox.org "402 Payment Required"
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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:
It could be a combination of IP + user agent (+ something else) that's causing me trouble.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>402 Payment Required</title> </head><body> <h1>Payment Required</h1> <p>The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.</p> <p>Please contact the server administrator at www@virtualbox.org to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.</p> <p>More information about this error may be available in the server error log.</p> </body></html>