Virtualbox.org "402 Payment Required"

Post by SpikedCola » Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 2:39 PM UTC

  curl -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" https://www.virtualbox.org 
  
  
  
  402 Payment Required
  
  Payment Required

Post by SpikedCola » Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 7:13 PM UTC

f30e3dfed1c9 wrote: post #3

SpikedCola wrote: post #2

I can't access virtualbox.org any more, they now show an error page saying "Payment Required", with status code 402. Interestingly, if I change my user agent to "curl/7.70.0", I can browse virtualbox.org again. They seem to be unhappy with my user agent specifically: curl -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" https://www.virtua…

I just downloaded VirtualBox-7.2.4-170995-OSX.dmg and Oracle_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-7.2.4.vbox-extpack with no problem.

Post by SpikedCola » Sat, Dec 13, 2025, 9:26 PM UTC

f30e3dfed1c9 wrote: post #5

SpikedCola wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you wouldn't mind, I would be curious - if you run the above curl command, do you get the same error? It could be a combination of IP + user agent (+ something else) that's causing me trouble.

I get this with your curl command: 402 Payment Required Payment Required The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator at www@virtualbox.org to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log.