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

[Karen Lewellen]

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?
>
>
> 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