Re: [Lynx-dev] sudden site access failure: realclearpolitics.com

[Jude DaShiell]

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?


On Wed, 10 Nov 2021, Karen Lewellen wrote:

> 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
>
>
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2021, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
> > 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?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 10 Nov 2021, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, 10 Nov 2021, Rudy Vener wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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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