"403 Forbidden"; Accessing open-vsx.org from Iran

[moien007]

Hi, the title says all.

This issue has been raised before, see #1337.

More specifically, I get this error when try to update any extension:

2025-12-22 15:14:58.447 [error] [Window] Server returned 403: Error: Server returned 403
    at Cs (file:///usr/lib/code/out/vs/code/electron-utility/sharedProcess/sharedProcessMain.js:62:2645)
    at Sh.getManifest (file:///usr/lib/code/out/vs/code/electron-utility/sharedProcess/sharedProcessMain.js:65:98309)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)
    at async Bh.Q (file:///usr/lib/code/out/vs/code/electron-utility/sharedProcess/sharedProcessMain.js:74:13776)
    at async file:///usr/lib/code/out/vs/code/electron-utility/sharedProcess/sharedProcessMain.js:74:1967
    at async Promise.allSettled (index 0)
    at async Bh.installGalleryExtensions (file:///usr/lib/code/out/vs/code/electron-utility/sharedProcess/sharedProcessMain.js:74:1891)
    at async Bh.installFromGallery (file:///usr/lib/code/out/vs/code/electron-utility/sharedProcess/sharedProcessMain.js:74:1512)

The editor then offers to manually download the VSIX file directly via the browser:

Which leads to this:

However, I can navigate the open-vsx.org freely and even download VSIX files from there: