MSFN Blocked

[Dave-H]

Doing jury service at the moment, and using my mobile phone on the courtroom's wi-fi.

Surprised to find I can't access MSFN. It's the only forum I use which won't work, I was just getting a "connection reset" message.

Today I suddenly got the following message -

http://wired.meraki.com:8090/blocked.cgi?blocked_server=151.106.17.234:80&blocked_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msfn.org%2Fboard%2Findex.php%3Fs%3D1ad077a3ee4d29224f13fd507e43fc29%26&blocked_categories=bc_034

MSFN seems to be considered a "games" site! 😁

[Gansangriff]

"Back to work!" it wants to tell you. No distractions allowed.

Maybe someone in the local area used MSFN too often. Which could mean, that you have another MSFN Agent in your neighborhood! Maybe it's the judge himself...

Or do these Cisco Meraki clouds get their data from everywhere? Like a global blocklist? Hopefully the reason behind MSFNs appearance there is not, that the forum is under constant spam attack! Showing some spam links to the outside of course.

[Tripredacus]

I have found that these filtering devices often will block the HTTP version but not the HTTPS version. You should always be using the HTTPS url to access this site. I tend to use a plugin such as HTTPS Anywhere on my browsers which will attempt to force HTTPS usage everywhere it can.

[Dave-H]

I've checked my MSFN bookmark, and it is indeed using an http link, from many years ago!
I've changed it to an https link now, it will be interesting to see if I now get the same problem at the courtroom tomorrow.
Using the latest Android version of Firefox on my mobile FWIW.