Re: sudden site access failure: realclearpolitics.com

That is actually an interesting question.
What exactly does cloudflare remember under those circumstances?



On Wed, 10 Nov 2021, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> I wonder, if a cell phone used the same ip to go to a site and solved the
> captcha with the higher graphics browser would the low/no graphics browser
> on the same ip also have to solve a captcha?
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> On Wed, 10 Nov 2021, Karen Lewellen wrote:
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>> Actually no,
>> The owner of fanfiction.net is also blocking normal fanfiction download
>> programs with also are lower graphics in nature.  Same for some mobile
>> platforms by using an everyone or anything that cannot solve the captcha is an
>> enemy approach, at least in part.
>> Cloudflare has settings,  I have actually visited some sites using cloudflare
>> and still gotten through in Lynx.
>> also, an owner can accept things like ip address
>>  and user agent, but again that is done on the site owner's side.
>> Kare
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>> On Wed, 10 Nov 2021, Jude DaShiell wrote:
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>>> I tried fanfiction.net and cloudflair blew up.  It wanted me to complete a
>>> captcha and wanted cookies on and javascript in use and no way lynx is
>>> doing all of that.  Maybe could code be put in lynx to block cloudflair
>>> whenever a lynx user attempts a site cloudflair handles?  The code
>>> probably ought to also ding the handlers of cloudflair that a lynx user
>>> was going to access say fanfiction.net or whatever the other site
>>> cloudflair handles and the lynx browser is set to automatically drop any
>>> cloudflair traffic since cloudflair is lynx browser hostile?
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>>> On Wed, 10 Nov 2021, Karen Lewellen wrote:
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>>>> Hi Rudy,
>>>> Have  you tried this site today?
>>>> Granted I am using the Lynx configuration at shellworld, but I just typed
>>>> the
>>>> address you provided, and reached the page perfectly.
>>>> something to consider about cloudflare is that it tracks sometimes by IP
>>>> address.
>>>> Would love to learn how the fanfiction.net site works with your user agent
>>>> though, smiles.
>>>> Karen
>>>>
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>>>> On Wed, 10 Nov 2021, Rudy Vener wrote:
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>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Yesterday realclearpolitics.com started returning the following page
>>>>> when I tried to access it with lynx.
>>>>>
>>>>>   Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker
>>>>>
>>>>> I invoke lynx as follows:
>>>>> /usr/local/bin/lynx-2.9.0-dev9 -useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel
>>>>> Mac
>>>>> OS X 10_8_0) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.79
>>>>> Safari/537.1 lynx" $*
>>>>>
>>>>> The above user agent spoof normally lets me slip the Cloud Flare
>>>>> gatekeepers, but this seems to be something new.
>>>>>
>>>>> For what it's worth, the same problem now occurs with w3m, however,
>>>>> links (the chain)  can access the site just fine.
>>>>> If there is a simple configuration fix for this, I'd really like to know.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Rudy Vener
>>>>> Website: http://www.rudyvener.com
>>>>> Twitter: https://twitter.com/RudySalt
>>>>>
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