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DougC

I am trying to login to the site at?

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?action=login2

The site comes back with an error:
Your session timed out while posting. Please go back and try again.

The "lost my password" link also produces a gateway timeout error.

Can someone look at this?

Doug C.
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Michael Van Canneyt
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DougC wrote 16 lines
I am trying to login to the site at? https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?action=login2 The site comes back with an error: Your session timed out while posting. Please go back and try again. The "lost my password" link also produces a gateway timeout error. Can someone look at this?

The sites are under what is presumably an AI scraping attack. The admins are doing what they can, blocking IP ranges as much as possible..

Michael.

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gabor
to Michael Van Canneyt

Please consider some general solution (if there is one) because the problem will only get worse.

Micha?.

W dniu 2025-02-28 o?08:49, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus pisze:

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On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, DougC via lazarus wrote: > I am trying to login to the site at > > https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?action=login2 > > > > The site comes back with an error: > Your session timed out while posting. Please go back and try again. > > > > The "lost my password" link also produces a gateway timeout error. > > > > Can someone look at this? The sites are under what is presumably an AI scraping attack. The admins are doing what they can, blocking IP ranges as much as possible.. Michael.

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Michael Van Canneyt
to gabor

And what would that general solution be ?

IMO there is little one can do against what amounts to a DDOS attack, except throw more money at it: additional machines, additional time etc.

Michael.

gabor wrote 33 lines
Please consider some general solution (if there is one) because the problem will only get worse. Micha?. W dniu 2025-02-28 o?08:49, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus pisze: > > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, DougC via lazarus wrote: > >> I am trying to login to the site at >> >> https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?action=login2 >> >> >> >> The site comes back with an error: >> Your session timed out while posting. Please go back and try again. >> >> >> >> The "lost my password" link also produces a gateway timeout error. >> >> >> >> Can someone look at this? > > The sites are under what is presumably an AI scraping attack. The admins > are doing what they can, blocking IP ranges as much as possible.. > > Michael. >

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Michael Van Canneyt
to Wayne Sherman
Wayne Sherman wrote 5 lines
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > And what would that general solution be ? Many websites are using CloudFlare. They have free Website DDos protection and bot protection ("are you a human?"):

I'd rather have something under our own control.

I have had bad experiences with cloudflare, it even locked me out of gitlab at some point - exactly with the 'are you a human' question. I had to file a bugreport.

Michael.

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Giuliano Colla
to Michael Van Canneyt

Il 01/03/25 21:59, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus ha scritto:

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On Sat, 1 Mar 2025, Wayne Sherman wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >> And what would that general solution be ? > > Many websites are using CloudFlare.? They have free Website DDos > protection and bot protection ("are you a human?"): I'd rather have something under our own control.

I cannot but agree with you. Whenever for my websites I tried to use something providing more than a bare bone website? I got more troubles than advantages. However different providers offer some extra features. The one I'm currently using includes a DDos protection which you may enable or disable from a configuration page. Unfortunately it's based on Italy and Spain only, to my knowledge.

Giuliano

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I have had bad experiences with cloudflare, it even locked me out of gitlab at some point - exactly with the 'are you a human' question. I had to file a bugreport. Michael.
Do not do to others as you would have them do to you.They might have different tastes.

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Marc Weustink
to Wayne Sherman: Many websites are using CloudFlare. They have free Website DDos protection and bot…
Wayne Sherman wrote 5 lines
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > And what would that general solution be ? Many websites are using CloudFlare. They have free Website DDos protection and bot protection ("are you a human?"):

I hate that service. On several sites I've upteen times been clicking all busses, cycles, firehouses, etc. To find out that no the resource you want to access is not available to you. Besides that, it is yet another company tracking your browse behavior.

I won't spend any cent on them

Marc

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Marc Weustink
to DougC: I am trying to login to the site at? https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?action…

You probably triggered some anti bot pattern. Did you get a 'cookies are required' message? Marc

DougC wrote 20 lines
I am trying to login to the site at? https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?action=login2 The site comes back with an error: Your session timed out while posting. Please go back and try again. The "lost my password" link also produces a gateway timeout error. Can someone look at this? Doug C.

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