I am a Stack Overflow user from Italy. I often get this error when accessing Stack Overflow, particularly from Google searches
Not Found
The requested URL / was not found on this server.
Retrying some time later on and I get the site correctly.
More frequent with Chrome.
Some questions which gave me errors in the last few days:
Here you are the HAR of my request
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