Access blocked on osm.org

When opening https://osm.org/ I’m getting “Access blocked” tiles. When opening https://openstreetmap.org/ it works.

Is it something on my end or a misconfiguration on OSM’s side?

Isn’t osm.org supposed to redirecto to openstreetmap.org such that the address expands in the browser bar?

I have this happening with openstreetmap.org

This is probably a consequence of this:

It works (how ever during a short interval, the certificates for https:www.openstreetmap.org were associated wrongly only to fastly.net). Can you retry?

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It works again. Thanks everyone and especially the ops team.

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You are confusing the scrapping of website pages and map tiles.

It was caused by a bug in some AI scraper protection code I deployed (since fixed). It incorrectly trigged an issue with tile.openstreetmap.org service for some users.

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It seems to be happening again.

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I understand from the Dutch forum that an update which went wrong was turned back.

For me it’s okay again.

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I still get that occasionally on https://www.openstreetmap.org with a message about a missing referer . It started on Saturday. After reloading, usually it works.

That particular example sounds like it might be just a local cache problem?

It still persists.

Sorry, my psychic powers are failing me.

Would it be possible give a little bit more detail - exactly what you see happening (what browser, what network connection). Does it occur in an incognito or private window? Does it occur if you try a different network connection or device?

This still persists. When browsing, occasionally one of the tiles has that ugly “referer missing” message. Haven’t tried “incognito or private window”. It certainly isn’t a “browser cache” issue.

I haven’t tried, but I can’t switch that easily.

I am having the exact same issue on firefox since a couple of weeks. I have some no referer stuff set, but even when trying to restore those to default the issue still happens. I am also using various browser extensions, but with those as well switching them off doesn’t change much.

It all works correclty with Brave. Is there something else I can try to fix it on Firefox?

Maybe the error image is in your browser’s cache?

Is there are a bug tracking this ? Who Is working on resolving this actively?

You seem to mistake the community here with your employees.

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Sorry for just reposting previous advice, but until you can do some investigation on your side, there is literally nothing anyone else can do.

I’m sure there are a lot of discussions going on within operations. As you are probably aware, the OSM websites have been under siege recently from scraper-muppets. Trying to keep them at bay while trying to keep the site up for everyone else is a huge challenge and evidence-free problems like yours tend to take a back seat.

Please try and ask yourself “if I was investigating this problem what information would I need”?

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Well, if they are investigating, can we see their tracker? It saves you time if I can see directly that it’s already taken care of. There isn’t really much more I can say in a public forum. If OSM has engineers for this, no need for the community, you, and me to waste time with this.

After four days of errors, sorry if I start worrying about the www.openstreetmap.org being available for mappers and users in my country while the local OSM doesn’t seem concerned, even shoots the messenger.