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PureBrowser - HTTP 403 on some sites
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Description

I can't browse https://www.payoneer.com/ on PureBrowser 60.1.0esr.

On PureBrowser this site responds with HTTP 403 to any request.

With httpie on PureOS, site loads OK:

$> http -phH GET https://www.payoneer.com/
GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Host: www.payoneer.com
User-Agent: HTTPie/0.9.8

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Content-Length: 182
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:06:41 GMT
Location: /es/
Server: Reblaze Secure Web Gateway


http -phH GET https://www.payoneer.com/es/
GET /es/ HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Host: www.payoneer.com
User-Agent: HTTPie/0.9.8

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache, private, no-transform, no-store
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 1253
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:07:35 GMT
P3P: CP="IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT"
Pragma: no-cache
Server: Reblaze Secure Web Gateway
Set-Cookie: rbzid=FMR61OlvU2UnmIzvrpUsSkUyULJfJudXXG4ticG2BsBFLwycPsB8RwJtwUAQfvnGxhmhNZy6msHuMX02UNbRfg==; Path=/; HttpOnly; Domain=.payoneer.com
Vary: Accept-Encoding
expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT

The site loads ok on Firefox 60 on Fedora.

Event Timeline

noe.nieto created this task.Nov 28 2018, 16:09

Firefox developer version (redish color) vs PureBrowser (greenish), side by side, loading the same page on PureOS

Seems that website doesUser-Aagent sniffing.

jonas.smedegaard triaged this task as Normal priority.Dec 28 2018, 13:11
jonas.smedegaard closed this task as Wontfix.May 28 2021, 00:54
jonas.smedegaard claimed this task.

Purism has abandoned the development of PureBrowser for some time now.

PureOS now recommends using GNOME Web (a.k.a. Epiphany), and also provides Firefox ESR.