Hi, For the las few days we are having trouble loading map images from Firefox 12. When trying to load from {a|b|c}.tile.openstreetmap.org, the response is 403 Forbidenn. Trying to load the same page with current version of Firefox, Chrome or Edge works fine. Also, if we try to load a single Image (a.tile.openstreetmap.org/11/623/1225.png) whe have an Access Denied error page. We have tried from client computers in Spain and Chile with same results. We think the problem is related to User-Agent, wich is in Firefox 12: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0 Thanks in advance. asked 30 Aug '16, 14:08  Diego-Tree edited 01 Dec '18, 22:37  aseerel4c26 ♦ |
One Answer:
Yes, you're right. I tried Firefox 12 and also got HTTP 403 when using the following user agent: It looks like those old user agents get used quite a bit by some abusive OSM Tile scrapers, and are therefore banned. If updating to a more recent Firefox version (think security!!) is not an option for you, a Firefox extension like User Agent Switcher might be a workaround for the time being. In any case I strongly recommend to update. answered 30 Aug '16, 20:55  mmd edited 30 Aug '16, 21:06 |
Which URL (an http or an https one)?