www.xteamfitness.com

Error message is

Access denied. If you believe that this is in error, please contact us directly. Thanks!

HP Chromebook 14.

FIOS or corporate web server...no luck.

Have read and tried every suggestion on the internet. No luck.

Site is accessible using a Windows 10 machine. Site is accessible from Macbook Pro using Safari.

Any expert opinions?

What is the error message or what specifically happens when you go to that site?

I'm having the same problem with SigForum, but I think it's a new network policy with my internet provider. I'm outside the U.S. and have no problems connecting with my VPN turned on. It began happening with my laptop today. Sorry I can't help, I will be talking with my network provider about it though.

I have the same problem with that site on an Asus Chromebook when using the Chrome browser. This Asus Chromebook also has support for Android apps. I've installed the Firefox browser Android app. I can access that site with Firefox.

I think the problem lies at the feet of the 14 year old web developer they're using. The website doesn't like something about the Chrome browser or the Chrome browser on Chromebooks.

Try removing it from your favorites and type in the URL. If it works then add it to your favorites again. For some strange reason it works for me sometimes but I have no idea why.

The error message is stated on the site page itself...not like it is a browser error (such as 404 not found). www.xteamfitness.com It's like the site code is looking at my Chromebook and blocking it. How it knows when I am accessing from a Chromebook, or a Windows laptop, or a Windows desktop, or my wife's Macbook Pro, I don't know.

Firefox on a Linux PC, and I, too, get the "blocked" error. The real joke? The error says to contact them directly, but provides no email address, phone number, nor any other info on just how to contact them.

The real problem here is they hired a moron to do coding.

Is Chrome OS like Linux? Maybe that is the common element to the failure.

The person coding the website is a personal friend, not a moron. I bet there was an oversight in his site design.

Chrome OS or Chromium OS is a "fork" of Gentoo Linux. Websites can detect not only browser info but client platform operating system. I believe the website has an unhandled condition for the Chrome browser (and Firefox per whanson_wi) on a Linux-ish operating system.

In the case of Android Firefox on my Chromebook actually accessing this website, I believe the website detects the client operating system as Android and not Linux.

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Originally posted by 4MUL8R:
How it knows when I am accessing from a Chromebook, or a Windows laptop, or a Windows desktop, or my wife's Macbook Pro, I don't know.

Among other things, your browser sends, and the http server logs, something called the "User Agent" string. This includes your OS and browser versions.