# Specific site won't embed because it blocks unknown user agents

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-site-wont-embed-because-it-blocks-unknown-user-agents/78090
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 15, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-site-wont-embed-because-it-blocks-unknown-user-agents/78090 "2018-01-15T19:07:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![tjb1013](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tjb1013/32/120402_2.png) [@tjb1013](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tjb1013)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-site-wont-embed-because-it-blocks-unknown-user-agents/78090/1 "2018-01-15T19:07:34Z")

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There’s a site whose content my community posts regularly, and it won’t Onebox despite being whitelisted to force it. Its OG validates on Iframely.

Here’s an example:

[https://www.roarlionsroar.com/penn-state-basketball/2018/01/3676/penn-state-vs-minnesota-preview](https://www.roarlionsroar.com/penn-state-basketball/2018/01/3676/penn-state-vs-minnesota-preview)

Sorry if my searches for a previous answer to this were unsuccessful. Any ideas? I’m running 1.9.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2018, 9:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-site-wont-embed-because-it-blocks-unknown-user-agents/78090/2 "2018-01-15T21:07:28Z")

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Usually this is because it is missing a text description. Does iframely validate the text description field?

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### Author: ![tjb1013](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tjb1013/32/120402_2.png) [@tjb1013](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tjb1013)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-site-wont-embed-because-it-blocks-unknown-user-agents/78090/3 "2018-01-15T21:11:45Z")

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Yeah, it does:

> **[Iframely URL Debugger - Open Graph, Twitter Cards, oEmbed](https://debug.iframely.com?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.roarlionsroar.com%2Fpenn-state-basketball%2F2018%2F01%2F3676%2Fpenn-state-vs-minnesota-preview)**
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> Check your URL against Open Graph, Twitter Cards, oEmbed specs. See what other apps see.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2018, 1:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-site-wont-embed-because-it-blocks-unknown-user-agents/78090/4 "2018-01-16T01:47:56Z")

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Sure can you take a quick look @vinothkannans?

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### Author: ![vinothkannans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vinothkannans/32/86465_2.png) [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2018, 8:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-site-wont-embed-because-it-blocks-unknown-user-agents/78090/5 "2018-01-16T08:03:01Z")

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That website returns `403 Forbidden` response whenever Discourse try to fetch the URL with request headers ` {"User-Agent"=>"Discourse Forum Onebox v2.0.0.beta1"}`. Looks like they are blocking all the unknown user agents.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2018, 8:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-site-wont-embed-because-it-blocks-unknown-user-agents/78090/6 "2018-01-16T08:13:48Z")

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