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Originally Posted by vikarti
ficbook.net's urls (I first noticed this on https://ficbook.net/readfic/6689669 but it looks like it appears to ANY ficbook url) now result in 503 error in FanFicFare. Opening them in browser shows Cloudlfare's page with 'checking...' for several seconds and page opens after that. How to make FanFicFare work again for it? |
This is the third report in the last few weeks about Cloudflare getting in the way. (
#488,
#493) At least one of the reporters only saw the problem while using a VPN.
This is the first time that I've seen it happen myself, however, so I can find out a bit more.
What appears to be happening is that there's some moderately obfuscated javascript on the "Checking your browser before accessing" page that needs to run and decode some numbers to call a different URL with a POST req and get some cookies set.
I call it 'moderately' obfuscated because I can still get some sense of what it's doing--which I suspect is primarily making your client computer spin a lot of cycles to slow it down and prove it isn't a DDoS script.
Unfortunately, FFF doesn't have any current ability to run javascript and I'm really hesitant to try and add one. And from a site's point of view, the difference between FFF and a hostile script can be pretty hard to tell.
I will continue to think about this, but so far I have no good ideas.