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Cross-platform, sophisticated frontend for the libretro API. Licensed GPLv3.
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Cannot subscribe to RSS because of Cloudflare #4812

Closed gsantner closed 6 years ago

gsantner commented 7 years ago

Hi there, I tried to subscribe to libretro RSS feed (https://www.libretro.com/index.php/feed/) and I keep getting 403 errors because of Cloudflare. Of course, a RSS feed client is not a human..

As I didn't found any contact adress, or any other section to ask about the website, I'am asking here:

Please turn off Cloudflare for RSS path. Really nice this project is open source and so, but restricted access to e.g. the project homepage is bad.

grafik

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meepingsnesroms commented 7 years ago

We should not be using cloudflare at all, I use tor because the retarded US government just removed all privacy laws for isps and have to do a captcha every time I want to check the forums because I cant be "verified" by cloudflare.

andres-asm commented 7 years ago

Bandwidth is not free. Cloudflare is.

meepingsnesroms commented 7 years ago

Cloudflare does not give you extra bandwidth though.

It intercepts all your web traffic and blocks what it thinks could be a ddos attack.

Has this project been ddosed before?

andres-asm commented 7 years ago

Of course it does. It gives you extra bandwidth because it functions as a reverse proxy caching static content. At least 70% of buildbot bandwidth is served directly by CF.

gsantner commented 7 years ago

This issue is not in general about/against/for cloudflare. It is, that this project is serving RSS/ATOM feeds. This is content that is made for bots and machine, not for humans; Humans usually don't retrieve these. A bot can't/shouldn't answer those "security checks". In this case CF breaks a feature of the site, and I am asking to deactivate it on this specific case.

andres-asm commented 7 years ago

I don't have more page rules, we would have to move to a paid for plan.

meepingsnesroms commented 7 years ago

I was not aware of that, I will try to just find a way to hack the captcha then.

andres-asm commented 7 years ago

@gsantner well not sure about your aggregator but I use feedly and both forum and blog RSS feeds work fine for me