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[DoctorStrangelove]

WTF is a "403" error FFS?

Does it need to figure out I'm vaguely human twice in 30 seconds now?

Just askin' like. .

[sadkingbilly]

been getting this:
Error 1015

Ray ID: 916775cf2bc23864 • 2025-02-23 13:11:09 UTCYou are being rate limited

What happened?


The owner of this website (forums.contractoruk.com) has banned you temporarily from accessing this website.

[jamesbrown]

Was looking at the https://forums.contractoruk.com/members/list/ and wanted to sort by reputation or post count to see top posters. No longer works. Coming up with an error on any sorts. Seems a new glitch.

It's the first reply to this thread.

[MarillionFan]

Was looking at the https://forums.contractoruk.com/members/list/ and wanted to sort by reputation or post count to see top posters. No longer works. Coming up with an error on any sorts. Seems a new glitch.

[NickFitz]

Edited to add: I've also just been told that as there was an ongoing bot swarm, the protection has been set to the highest level, which means it challenges every visitor that hasn't been challenged within the set time. Assuming the bots have moved on, they'll drop it down a notch. That means that CloudFlare will first check for other signals that you're not a bot when deciding whether to let you pass, so will be much less likely to challenge you in the first place.

Further update: the security level to trigger a challenge was lowered, and the bots came swarming back in like those tentacle things in The Matrix (1999). So we'll have to put up with being challenged occasionally for a while longer

[jamesbrown]

Thanks, Nick!

[NickFitz]

Not sure what the Chrome thing would be. CloudFlare is also annoying me on a regular basis; I'll let the people in charge know tomorrow, and with luck there's some setting they can change

Oh, hang on: if you're seeing CloudFlare then finding the Back button gives that error, I think it's because CloudFlare's "not a robot" thing submits its form rather than just getting the page you were after, and browsers try to prevent repeat form submissions so you don't book the same airline ticket twice and so on. I'll see if they can find a setting for that too

The CloudFlare challenge frequency has been reduced to every 24 hours for now. Assuming this proves adequate to repel boarders bots, the powers that be will try bumping it up to seven days at a later date

This doesn't help with the Back button thing, but at least that should only be a problem once a day and, if things go as planned, once a week

Edited to add: I've also just been told that as there was an ongoing bot swarm, the protection has been set to the highest level, which means it challenges every visitor that hasn't been challenged within the set time. Assuming the bots have moved on, they'll drop it down a notch. That means that CloudFlare will first check for other signals that you're not a bot when deciding whether to let you pass, so will be much less likely to challenge you in the first place.

[NickFitz]

Back button doesn't work (at least in Chrome), something about a cache miss. Also cloudflare seems to check every. single. time., which seems wrong

Not sure what the Chrome thing would be. CloudFlare is also annoying me on a regular basis; I'll let the people in charge know tomorrow, and with luck there's some setting they can change

Oh, hang on: if you're seeing CloudFlare then finding the Back button gives that error, I think it's because CloudFlare's "not a robot" thing submits its form rather than just getting the page you were after, and browsers try to prevent repeat form submissions so you don't book the same airline ticket twice and so on. I'll see if they can find a setting for that too

[jamesbrown]

Back button doesn't work (at least in Chrome), something about a cache miss. Also cloudflare seems to check every. single. time., which seems wrong

[cojak]

I can’t reply to https://forums.contractoruk.com/umbr...ml#post3009800 - I suspect it’s because the thread ends with a number

Try it again?

[Uncle Albert]

It verified me as being human.

I've never been so insulted in my life.

[NickFitz]

Currently FUBAR

Should be OK again now - see the "10p in the meter" thread for details

[DoctorStrangelove]

Currently FUBAR

[ladymuck]

I can’t reply to https://forums.contractoruk.com/umbr...ml#post3009800 - I suspect it’s because the thread ends with a number

When I went to click like/thank, there was only one click in each box and I got the error message that Lucy's PM limit has been reached. Either they've cleared out their inbox or that was a hiccup as now there's more than one click in each.

Agree on being unable to reply - it comes up with the invalid URL error when I hit the button.

[eek]

I can’t reply to https://forums.contractoruk.com/umbr...ml#post3009800 - I suspect it’s because the thread ends with a number