403 Forbidden

I am trying to access a website with our county tax data and get the message "403 Forbidden".

This is curious because I was able to access the site 6 months ago.


I followed two other discussions and tried their recommendations with no remedy.


1) cleared cache and cookies from this site


2) truncated site name to remove the / from the end of the site name.


Any other suggestions?

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Nov 19, 2019 8:38 AM

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Nov 19, 2019 8:44 AM in response to Wonder_Why

This is probably an issue with the server and you will need to take it up with the people running the website. The error means that you are trying to access something which the server will not allow. One example is where you enter the name of a directory - as you are doing here - and that directory does not contain an index.html or index.html file (which would be opened automatically). In this situation the server would display a list of the contents of the directory, except that most servers are set up not to allow this.

Nov 19, 2019 8:42 AM in response to Wonder_Why

Have you tried disabling any extensions you have installed?


Cleared history?


Are you running any anti - virus programs? Using a VPN?


Try setting up another admin user account in System Preferences/Users & Groups to see if the same problem continues. Please post back on whether or not this worked. Also try the Safe Mode. Please post back on whether or not this worked.


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