nzb.su - HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[CeterPushing]

This is from the Admin of the site, all I know is headphones at the moment is blocked from searches:

I've recently blocked anything that is not properly identifying itself in the user-agent field. Namely, this was due to an application that looks to be 'headphones' hammering the shit out of our services. Apparently there is no hardcoded low value on how often to search...

People have objects to search for with 1,000 of requests, and set the interval to search at 5minutes. This results never-ending server hammering.

So:

1. if you use headphones, correct it now. we will start banning accounts that don't set their search parameters to something a bit more reasonable.
2. if you use headphones, go to their forums and tell them their application is not identifying itself in the url, and to please fix it
3. if you you some other app that is getting a 403, it also needs to be fixed.

Thanks

[rembo10]

User-agent added. Thanks for the heads up. The minimum search interval is now 6 hours and the default is 24 hours. Hopefully that will clear things up but let me know if you need me to bump the minumum up to 12 or 24 hours

Thanks again for the heads up, and the awesome site

[rembo10]

Adding the user agent cleared things up for a bit but it's back to getting 403 errors. Any reason why? Anything else I can do to fix it??

[baikunz]

@rembo10 search is working. however nzb downloading is not : Error fetching nzb from url: xxx HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

You may have to edit this request : https://github.com/rembo10/headphones/blob/master/headphones/searcher.py#L634

[rembo10]

ah thats what it was. fixed - and thanks for the heads up!

[CeterPushing]

Thank you for addressing this , much appreciated!

[CBers]

Also getting this - headphones is uptodate:

Error fetching data from https://nzb.su: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[Enverex]

Ditto, I'm getting it too which is making Headphones a bit useless with NZB-su being the only indexer left that I'm part of.

[yidhoe]

Me too, Sickbeard & Couch are fine but Headphones cant talk to NZB.SU, I have 4 other sites working though so it isn't the end of the world, for reference I have tried with "NZB.su" "NZB.su/" "http://NZB.su" "http://NZB.su/" and all fail, in the logs it appears to be appending a colon ":" on the end of the URL, I.E. "http://NZB.su/:".

[Redlake73]

I'm getting this too. Any update on what the problem is?

Error fetching data from https://nzb.su: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[CBers]

@Redlake73 - have read this: https://github.com/rembo10/headphones/issues/1030

[CBers]

Just done an update and searcher.py has been modified, and the UserAgent string hasn't been changed so getting the FORBIDDEN message again !!

Time to update the searcher.py file again :-(

[kylerw]

Same thing here, FYI.

[Bottsie]

Same here as well

[Trixter69]

ditto getting the "Error fetching data from http://nzb.su: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden" error

[CBers]

Have you updated the searcher.py file again ??

[rembo10]

I'm not sure what I can do about this since we're sending the user agent and there is a hard limit for the search interval. Any ideas? On Apr 19, 2013 2:54 PM, "CBers" notifications@github.com wrote:

Have you updated the searcher.py file again ??

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/rembo10/headphones/issues/955#issuecomment-16640396 .

[CBers]

Spoofing the user agent is the only answer at the moment, until it gets blocked again.

So many users, so many wanted albums, so many calls.

You've created too good a program :)

[CBers]

Have you seen this: http://howdoiuse.net/headphones/headphones-searches-failing-always-getting-403-errors/

And this: http://howdoiuse.net/headphones/should-nzb-su-support-headphones-poll/