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cloudflare ddos protection prevents lowendtalk-rss from working.

blaerblaer Member
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Hi all,

Lowendtalk uses the cloudflare ddos protection. It's a javascript routine that verifies that the browser is really a browser and not some bot trying to do bad thing.

The thing is that this also prevents my RSS reader from reading the LowEndTalk-RSS feed.

I'm using "The Old Reader"

Anybody having a similar issue? Anybody have a solution? Thanks.

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  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith Member, Patron Provider

    If it is broke.. you can be sure it will stay broke, this site has had fewer updates and improvements than SolusVM in the last 3 years.

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  • blaerblaer Member

    I was afraid of that. :/

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran

    It's broken for a while and nobody cares, one would think they wanted LEB readership to increase, but apparently not. I stopped visiting LEB at all anymore since my primary reasons for visiting were all from getting a new post on RSS.

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  • cochoncochon Member

    @blaer said: uses the cloudflare ddos protection. It's a javascript routine

    Strange, there must be more to it than always running a JS check. I wonder if it's triggered by the UserAgent the visitor claims to be. Can you try a different or indirect aggregator.

    Direct RSS feed in Opera mail (not the browser) still works for me, and a plain wget fetch of the feed also has no problems and runs no JS.

  • defkevdefkev Member

    Same for https://lowendbox.com/feed/

    503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

    Cloudflare works by executing some arbitrary JS (something not supported by most aggregators for a reason) and setting cookies (__cfduid & cf_clearance)

    I personally wouldn't be surprised if Opera mail works, because - well, it's engine is based on Opera.
    But its nothing stuff like wget or curl can handle.
    On the other hand Cloudflare is known to distinguish between the users geoip so you might just be lucky.

    Regardless, let me quote the author of my favorite newsreader here:

    ...putting an rss feed - a thing normally accessed by automated agents - behind a literal captcha is unimaginably retarded

    Cheers

  • joepie91joepie91 Member, Patron Provider

    cochon said: Strange, there must be more to it than always running a JS check. I wonder if it's triggered by the UserAgent the visitor claims to be.

    It's just a hilariously simple-to-deobfuscate bit of JS, with a server-side delay and a cookie for keeping track of who's authenticated. It's not hard to break at all, so really all it does is keep out legitimate automated clients (like is the case here).

    There's a reason I constantly complain about CloudFlare.

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  • defkevdefkev Member

    joepie91 said: There's a reason I constantly complain about CloudFlare.

    Good read, pretty much in line with my own experience.

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