Anybody have problems to access some apple website sections (ej: https://iforgot.apple.com/) with linux browsers

I found trying to access to some apple websites sections (ej: ) with a linux browser, i got 502 Bad Gateway error

These error appears with:

• Google Chrome Version 72.0.3626.81 (Official Build) (64-bit)

• Firefox Quantum 64.0

I ask to Apple support and they told me that they don't have problems because the user Macs.

1 Answer

Apple is blocking Linux useragent strings. Change yours and the page(s) will load with no problem. On Firefox browse to about:config, create a new string "general.useragent.override" then borrow a different useragent string of a browser Apple does not block. I chose this one at random:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; fi-fi) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3