The help center refuses agents that don't run a browser
Buyer question: How do I get help with an import?
Confidence: High — Reproduced three times from one location; other locations not tested.
Where the journey stopped
- Open homepagecompleted
- Follow the Help linkcompleted
- Open the help centerblocked here
- Find the import articlenot reached
Person view vs. agent view
Import customers from a CSV — Go to Settings › Data › Import and choose your file.
403 Forbidden Request blocked by bot protection.
Blocker
The Help link leads to help.northgate-crm.example. A plain HTTP request gets a 403 from the help center's bot protection; a browser session gets the articles.
Business impact
When a customer asks an assistant how to do something in Northgate, the assistant may answer from forums or guess instead of using the official article.
Trade-off
If the block is deliberate (for example to limit scraping), allow known AI assistants' user agents rather than removing protection.
Fix
Allow AI assistants' user agents to read help-center articles; keep rate limiting in place.
- Done when
- A plain HTTP fetch of /hc/en/articles/import returns 200 with the article text.
- Owner
- Support operations
- Effort
- Small
Evidence · 2 records
403 Forbidden Request blocked by bot protection.
Import customers from a CSV — Go to Settings › Data › Import and choose your file.