403 Forbidden message when searching by ISBN

[David]

I've just searched for a book I have by ISBN, it is in the database and appears in the drop-down menu, but when I click on it to view the book page I get a "403 Forbidden" page. Is this a known issue that will (hopefully) be fixed soon?

Edit: searching for the book by title allows me to add the book (but not the correct edition) but every book page is giving me the error...

[Scott]

please contact support for site functionality issues.

[mirabilos]

JFYI, I’m getting 403 on all individual book pages, but the other pages seem to work, so it’s not just you.

[Kate]

Ffs GoodReads has become such a joke
Its barely functional anymore

[William]

I've been seeing this too. It seems to be a problem with User-Agent filtering. At least one thing they are filtering and redirecting to 403 are Linux-based user agents. I contacted support and sent them this:

Whenever I try to look at any book detail page I get a 403 Forbidden. The rest of the site works fine.

Firefox 129.0, Ubuntu Linux

This appears to be a mistaken acess rule in your web server because it seems to reject any User-Agent string containing "X11" - This is A) something users can alter if they like and B) going to be common to all linux users.

Rejected with 403 Forbidden:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0

Passing with 200 OK:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X1; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0

Forbidding user agents like this offers zero security vs bad actors and ruins user experience for some users.

[Kate]

Well done William
The volunteer librarians arent just doing all the cataloging ourselves anymore, now were also doing the debugging - still unpaid of course

[Monica, Librarian Moderator]

This bug has been fixed.

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