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Siraj Ahmad
Siraj Ahmad

Reputation: 53

Unable to access linkedin via VNC on AWS

I have setup an EC2 instance with VNC GUI access to it. While browsing LinkedIn from the EC2 instance, I am unable to open custom LinkedIn URLs, i.e. URL of a specific user (lets say https://np.linkedin.com/in/abc123). I have also opened port 443, 8080 from security groups. I get ping reply from np.linkedin.com though. Can anyone guide me what could have gone wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 767

Answers (1)

John Rotenstein
John Rotenstein

Reputation: 270089

I can verify that unauthenticated access to LinkedIn from an Amazon EC2 instance does not display user information (and the URL mentions something about sentinel_org_blocked.

I suspect that LinkedIn is intentionally blocking access from the Amazon EC2 IP address range to prevent information scraping. It works successfully if the user is logged into LinkedIn.

Upvotes: 2

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