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ToxicFrog / bltool

A tool for command line interaction with backloggery.com
Apache License 2.0
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Connection times out after adding a few games #37

Open Antaraki2004 opened 3 years ago

Antaraki2004 commented 3 years ago

The program seems to be working correctly with no errors at first, but after a number of games get added, the website seems to blacklist the IP from where the program runs, resulting in the website as a whole to remain irresponsive for prolonged periods of time before becoming functional for said IP again, probably being intentional design to counteract denial of service attacks. I believe that a mechanism should be added to prevent the program for sending too many request in a small time frame to avoid triggering the mechanism.

Antaraki2004 commented 3 years ago

The closure of this issue was accidental and should be ignored.

xjeanlucpicardx commented 3 years ago

i just experienced this issue as well.

after successfully adding 21 entries, every add attempt returned 'connection timed out'.

i also could not connect to the backloggery website in a browser until connecting to a vpn first.

Antaraki2004 commented 3 years ago

@xjeanlucpicardx The repository seems dead, unfortunately. I guess this will have to stay here till @ToxicFrog appears, whenever that happens.

ToxicFrog commented 3 years ago

Sorry, I thought I'd added something to the README about this, but apparently not -- this repo is no longer maintained, as I no longer use backloggery and haven't for years. If other people want to submit patches I'll accept them, and if someone else wants to take over the project they're welcome to, but I'm not maintaining it anymore.

ToxicFrog commented 3 years ago

Updated the README.

xjeanlucpicardx commented 3 years ago

no problem, thanks for responding. would suggest adding "bulk actions will result in temporary ip block due to backloggery's DDOS protection" or something like that in the note. take care

Antaraki2004 commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the response. I will this issue open for visibility. If you have any issue with that, feel free to close it. Have a nice day.