Work around G+ “403. That’s an error.” errors
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/08
I’m not yet sure what the exact cause is, but at irregular intervals when clicking on Google Plus links, they show as “403. That’s an error.”.
They appear both when I have multiple WAN connections or a single WAN connection, which leads me to suspect that G+ doesn’t cope well when
- you have a lot (dozens) of Google related pages open (Drive, Mail, Search, Documents, etc) as Google Plus is embedded in each of them
- you rapidly browse through your G+ backlog (the G+ counter is > 50 since you follow a lot of people/communities and you quickly do catch-up on them)
In a future post, I will explain how I created the workaround, but here it is:
Basically it translates links
- from https://ipv4.google.com/sorry/IndexRedirect?continue=https://plus.google.com/u/0/%2Bcodeproject/posts/FQCEnGxYGXi&q=CGMSBLzJ3TkY7vzttwUiGQDxp4NLeVHCwZCj8IDRjkFp5Wevt5na1f4qOmh0dHBzOi8vcGx1cy5nb29nbGUuY29tL3UvMC8rY29kZXByb2plY3QvcG9zdHMvRlFDRW5HeFlHWGk
- to https://plus.google.com/u/0/+codeproject/posts/FQCEnGxYGXi
The latter was the original link I clicked in the first place. The former what G+ comes up with.
After a while, G+ comes back to its senses and allows the latter links again, so the page allows you to parse the former then put them in a list like this:
One decoded URL per list-item.
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