I have tried to open appleid.apple.com on my Ubuntu 18.10 machine and I can not get it work right. I am getting a "502 Bad Gateway" error. I thought it was something on their end but the website works fine when I open it on my phone. I have tried to use Firefox, Google Chrome and Chromium with no luck.
Edit: Apple has fixed this issue after I reported it.
2 Answers
It looks like Apple is filtering on User Agent. I just switched mine to Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36 and it worked fine.
I had the same issue with Ubuntu and also with Mint Linux and tried out different browsers in that environments assuming the issue is only in a single environment. The solution described above worked as well for me to install the Firefox AddOn called "UserAgentSwitcher" [
This gives a chance to simulates a certain environment. And It seems the Apple friends does not "like" the Linux community ;-)..
Every Linux based environment simulation lead to the 502 Bad Gateway issue - only other ones are working. I do not have found an alternative also for other browsers so far... Thanks for the trick.
