Not able to access - 403 error

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What are you trying to access? What’s the address? Where did you find the link?

https://exercism.org/ - while we try to access the page, it shows 403 error

That’s likely your IP being blocked by Cloudfront for not respecting rate-limits. Maybe someone on your IP address is running scripts or similar?

Who are “we”? Are you doing this as a group, as a meetup, or something else?

The request could not be satisfied.


Request blocked. We can’t connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner.
If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation.

When 80 students try to access the Python learning platform simultaneously, they encounter a 403 error, hindering their progress.

That usually goes away after a minute … though if they’re all accessing Exercism from behind a single public IP, it might be a bit of a problem.

If you provide information about the IP address your accessing from, and what your organisation is, I can allow it. However, due to constant attacks, we have limiting on IPs to stop the constant abuse we’re receiving.

IP : 121.200.53.174

College: Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

IP : 121.200.53.174

College: Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

Kindly allow our students to learn from your platform.

I have removed our protections from this IP address. Please note that if there is any abuse from this IP, it will be blocked, so please ensure your students use the site responsibly.

Please consider donating to Exercism to support the free work of others that you are benefiting from. Thank you.

Thank you. We will use your resources responsibly. And also we will do donation for further.

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