fixed CloudFlare blocking posts

[cynexit]

Don't know if you have the options to turn the CloudFlare pseudo protection down a bit, but posting this:

 

http://pastebin.com/w4UgLF2R

 

Yields this:
 

http://imgur.com/iUfv9xa

 

So yeah, not to good for a tech forum.

 

 

[Blade of Grass]

Yeah, we've noticed that Cloudflare has been quite.... Proactive in blocking requests that contain certain strings, and we have been looking into how we can fix these issues. 

[colonel_mortis]

13 hours ago, Secondmineboy said:

Why not moving to a different CDN Provider?

 

https://www.incapsula.com/cdn-content-delivery-network/

 

Incapsula has better protection, fully automated DDoS and more features that CF doesnt have.

 

https://www.incapsula.com/incapsula-vs-cloudflare.html

Incapsula is different, but not necessarily better (of course, their own website will tell you differently).

[cynexit]

You might just want to disable the keyword filtering in the Web App "Firewall".

Honestly, an attacker would probably just encode his message until it's not captured by the "firewall" and not all requests containing "via gra" or "/var/ www/ html" are necessary evil, you know?

 

EDIT: Seriously, I was blocked for having "via gra" and "/var/ www/ html" without the spaces in my post. So if this "firewall" is meant to fight spam, wow, all it takes are extra spaces. If it is meant to fight file inclusion, great, just encode the fu**ing path differently. The only thing this does is annoy legitimate users. I rate Snakeoil/10.

 

EDIT2: To clarify, I'm solely pissed at the fact that they sell this as a security feature, nothing more. This is not targeted at whomever enabled/activated this feature for this website.

[colonel_mortis]

This issue has now been resolved.