[▲ Vercel Community](/) · [Categories](/categories) · [Latest](/latest) · [Top](/top) · [Live](/live) [Help](/c/help/9) # I cannot access ANY website hosted in Vercel, except Vercel itself 580 views · 13 likes · 18 posts Beatlz Too (@beatlz-too) · 2025-02-07 I cannot access any websites hosted in Vercel from my PC. I've tried all the tests that I can come up with. I've combined VPN, different browsers (webkit, chromium, firefox, etc.)… I thought maybe my ISP was banned, but no, it works just fine in my other devices. Not my IP, because VPN doesn't do the trick. Also, my Mac works just fine. The websites load all blank. No errors, no network calls. Nothing. Weirdest part, if I ping the IP it's all good, and if I go to [vercel.com](http://vercel.com/) itself, it's working just fine. But, if I go to [cursor.com](http://cursor.com/) for example, which is hosted in Vercel, it won't work. Neither will any other. If I ping the domain directly, it works aswell. My guess is I'm blocked on a hardware level by Vercel's CDN service for whatever reason? I do zero weird activity on this computer, so I would be surprised. But I really can't think of anything else now. Anyway, I have a bunch of websites hosted in Vercel and I cannot test production lmao, anyone has had this issue before? I cannot find a lot about it online. I also tried turning my firewall off, didn't work either. Network response with SSR website is blank.   Anshuman Bhardwaj (@anshumanb) · 2025-02-07 · ♥ 1 Hi @beatlz-too, welcome to the Vercel Community! Sorry that you're facing this issue. Can you try opening: https://www.theanshuman.dev/ or https://anshuman-can-ship.vercel.app/ to see if it persists here? Also, please share what the network request headers look like. And the browser console. Beatlz Too (@beatlz-too) · 2025-02-07 · ♥ 1 Hello and thanks for the quick response. https://www.theanshuman.dev/ ==> works https://anshuman-can-ship.vercel.app/ ==> fails Headers as cURL ``` curl ^"https://anshuman-can-ship.vercel.app/^" ^ -H ^"accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8^" ^ -H ^"accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.8^" ^ -H ^"cache-control: max-age=0^" ^ -H ^"priority: u=0, i^" ^ -H ^"referer: https://community.vercel.com/^" ^ -H ^"sec-ch-ua: ^\^"Not(A:Brand^\^";v=^\^"99^\^", ^\^"Brave^\^";v=^\^"133^\^", ^\^"Chromium^\^";v=^\^"133^\^"^" ^ -H ^"sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0^" ^ -H ^"sec-ch-ua-platform: ^\^"Windows^\^"^" ^ -H ^"sec-fetch-dest: document^" ^ -H ^"sec-fetch-mode: navigate^" ^ -H ^"sec-fetch-site: cross-site^" ^ -H ^"sec-fetch-user: ?1^" ^ -H ^"sec-gpc: 1^" ^ -H ^"upgrade-insecure-requests: 1^" ^ -H ^"user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36^" ``` Beatlz Too (@beatlz-too) · 2025-02-08 [I'm not the only one](https://www.reddit.com/r/vercel/comments/1ijrtmd/comment/mbmlqxm/) with this issue apparently. I think it's not common, but must be a pattern. Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2025-02-09 · ♥ 1 Could you go through this post? It may be related! https://community.vercel.com/t/resolving-ip-blocking-issues/171 Beatlz Too (@beatlz-too) · 2025-03-02 Nope, this isn't working. I had already tried different VPNs. I think it's at OS level. Beatlz Too (@beatlz-too) · 2025-03-02 Extra findings: All browsers are failing. If I go to the networks tab, there's not even a content fetch. However, if I call websites from postman, I get the normal response. So it's only failing on browsers. BestCodes (@bestcodes) · 2025-03-03 What DNS provider are you using on the device where this fails? Strange that it still fails in a VPN... Beatlz Too (@beatlz-too) · 2025-03-03 · ♥ 1 I tried both Google's and Cloudflare's. But still, wouldn't this affect the Postman call if it was because of DNS? When I fetch the content using postman, it works. It seems to be browser-only. BestCodes (@bestcodes) · 2025-03-04 That's very strange. I'd think it's more likely for Vercel to block a request from Postman than from a browser… Beatlz Too (@beatlz-too) · 2025-03-06 · ♥ 1 Just to be clear, this isn't IP related, I'm 100% now : ) Beatlz Too (@beatlz-too) · 2025-03-08 · ♥ 1 The thing is, I don't get blocked. Or at least it doesn't seem like I am. But the response's body is empty. just get headers. ``` access-control-allow-origin: * age: 65914 cache-control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate content-disposition: inline content-encoding: br content-length: 1 content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:11:44 GMT etag: W/"674fe66552b985d0f05ad4ca9b82539f" expires: 0 pragma: no-cache server: Vercel strict-transport-security: max-age=63072000 vary: RSC, Next-Router-State-Tree, Next-Router-Prefetch, Next-Router-Segment-Prefetch x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN x-matched-path: /research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice x-vercel-cache: HIT x-vercel-id: cdg1::fnjrk-1741450304006-8dbaefd66818 ``` Beatlz Too (@beatlz-too) · 2025-03-10 New fun update. I installed wsl and ran a chromium instance in wsl. I'm able to run vercel sites here. It's only on Windows that's not letting me. Beatlz Too (@beatlz-too) · 2025-03-10 · ♥ 1 Here I'm running everything in the same variables, except for the OS. The right is an Ubuntu distro using WSL, while the left is just windows. So I think it's gotta do with Windows (as usual…)  Anshuman Bhardwaj (@anshumanb) · 2025-03-11 · ♥ 2 Hi @beatlz-too, thanks for sharing your findings here. Beatlz Too (@beatlz-too) · 2025-03-11 No problem, I wish I had a solution too. I tried making a new session for Windows, all blank. Vercel sites work there. So it's not the OS. So far I can rule out: * OS * Specific browser (tried all) * DNS (I flushed and changed to Google's and Cloudflare's, same result) * Firewall (I turned it off, no luck) * IP (tried VPN) * My session being banned (If I request the site on postman or even on a fetch() function, I get the proper response) I'm just stunned, I don't know what else to try. Any ideas are welcome @anshumanb Beatlz Too (@beatlz-too) · 2025-03-11 · ♥ 3 I finally solved it. There was something corrupt affecting my session. I ran `sfc /scannow` as admin and it did the trick. I have no clue why, but something there was messing with the specific combination of using any browser on this Windows session. Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2025-03-11 · ♥ 1 Thank you for sharing what worked for you! :smiley:
