weird 403 (forbidden) website access issue

[Gary Aitken]

On 3/31/20 2:42 PM, freebsd at boosten.org wrote:
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>> Op 31 mrt. 2020, om 22:33 heeft Gary Aitken <freebsd at dreamchaser.org> het volgende geschreven:
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>> Any thoughts on what might be causing this?
>> Why would a browser report a 403 error when telnet doesn’t?
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> Do you, by any chance, have modsecurity installed on the server end?

I haven't a clue, unfortunately, as I don't control the server.
The server is through greengeeks.com, but a reverse dns shows
   chi-node42.websitehostserver.net.

Gary