Title: Error 412 Precondition Failed?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Error 412 Precondition Failed?

 *  [ohtwo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ohtwo/)
 * (@ohtwo)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-412-precondition-failed/)
 * For some reason I can’t seem to access wordpress.org at all (I’m posting this
   at work, incidentally). I get an error message of:
 * 412 Precondition Failed
    The precondition on the request for the URL / evaluated
   to false.
 * I know there was some talk of changes this past weekend due to referral spam,
   but any idea what’s up? I’m not behind a proxy, nor do I ‘mask’ any of my Browse
   Agent Strings, or the such. I’m really at a loss.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-412-precondition-failed/#post-146190)
 * A friend had this. Uses firefox, no reason why this occurred.
    Was solved instead
   by using his ISP’s webcache.
 * And before someone says to Google for this error, we both did for hours at the
   weekend ……
 *  Thread Starter [ohtwo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ohtwo/)
 * (@ohtwo)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-412-precondition-failed/#post-146193)
 * Hrm, I’ll give that a whirl, though sadly my ISP doesn’t have a webcache. I work
   in the hosting industry (have done so for nearly 10 years), so all I could see
   doing this is some demented mod_security or mod_rewrite failure. I’ve done similar
   setups for clients myself.
 * For what it’s worth (in case others find this post), Firefox, IE, and Safari 
   all get the boot with the same message. My DSL IP is probably what’s getting 
   blocked.
 * Thanks for the speedy reply. As a long time forum lurker, you do good work around
   here, podz.
 *  [oncidium](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oncidium/)
 * (@oncidium)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-412-precondition-failed/#post-146769)
 * did anyone ever figure this one out…I have people getting the same error.
 *  [Annie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/annie/)
 * (@annie)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-412-precondition-failed/#post-146782)
 * I have this error when I’m trying to update things like my ‘witty text’ file 
   or input the ‘common spam words’. I’ve tried Firefox and IE. Can anyone shed 
   any light on this please?

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-412-precondition-failed/#post-146782)
 * Status: not resolved

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