I’m trying to make a request to a website from my service that runs on a droplet and for some reason the website’s cloudflare prevents me from making the request. After some investigation, I also realized that hitting another endpoint results in a 403 forbidden. I started testing other websites just to make sure that there wasn’t anything wrong with the website I was trying to make requests to. I found that https://www.makeuseof.com/ was also returning a 403 from the droplet. I’ve tried making requests locally, and from a VM (provided by a competing cloud provider) and it works fine.
TIA.
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Hi @beepBeepImaJeep,
Can you confirm how are you doing the requests? What curl or wget commands are you using or is it something else entierly? I’m asking as I want to try and re-create the issue on my end.
Additionally, make sure you’ve allowed outgoing connections on the ports you are trying to use!
Regards, KFSys
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