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Posted: **Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:19 pm**

Aw, Crap!!!!!!!

As of 5:30 am (NY time) on 6/30/2010 my PHP scripts that use the "curl_" functions to read web pages and parse them has stopped working - but only from the Newgrounds.com site. I tested my code by reading other sites, and it works. It looks like Newgrounds is blocking my reads. I have put a PM out to Tom Fulp to see if he was aware of any changes or if he was intentionally blocking the requests from www.wkrconcepts.com.

This block affects both the EGB roster scan AND NGLOGS!!!!! - neither site can read from NewGrounds anymore!

Eagle, if you have any ideas, I'm wide open, my friend. Any tricks up your sleeve with PHP? Maybe if I changed the header type to trick Newgrounds into thinking it was a "regular" browser request? Or do you think I'm being IP blocked?

Hopefully Tom will answer me soon, and we can work this out. If anyone else can lend a hand and put a good word in with Tom, that may be helpful, too!

Posted: **Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:26 pm**

This is terrible :o

The EGB roster can always be updated manually, but NG logs? It would suck if it stopped working, a lot of people use it :/

Tom usually replies to PMs quickly, I hope than you can sort this out :)

Posted: **Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:47 pm**

Update: I tested my code on an alternate server just to see if it would work - it does!

It looks like Newgrounds has an IP Block on the wkrconcepts server - OH NO!!!!

I'll keep you posted...

Update to this post: I PM'd Tom - he did reply, saying he'd look into it. I responded by asking him to check with his network gurus and see if my server IP was being blacklisted at the firewall. Some firewall / security appliances detect access patterns from other IPs, and if the pattern looks suspicious or malicious, the IP gets blocked.

Looks like it's just a waiting game now...

Posted: **Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:43 pm**

ByteSlinger wrote::shock:

Update: I tested my code on an alternate server just to see if it would work - it does!

It looks like Newgrounds has an IP Block on the wkrconcepts server - OH NO!!!!

I'll keep you posted...

Update to this post: I PM'd Tom - he did reply, saying he'd look into it. I responded by asking him to check with his network gurus and see if my server IP was being blacklisted at the firewall. Some firewall / security appliances detect access patterns from other IPs, and if the pattern looks suspicious or malicious, the IP gets blocked.

Looks like it's just a waiting game now...

I wouldn't worry. I lock myself off my own server on a semi-regular basis. I'll plop myself into /etc/hosts.deny if I type the wrong admin password 2-3 times in a row. Of course, I have DenyHosts running and it's pretty strict rules. One thing you could do in the meantime (depending on what else is running on that server) is kick the php client connection through a proxy to grab stats. Either that, or run your php scripts on a remote server and sync up your data. It's worth a shot. Hell, depending on how your network is laid out, you could NFS mount the scripts on a remote server and just run them there. That should pull traffic off the remote IP as well. It'd be slower, but slower is better than stopped.

Maybe Tom will just PM in quick enough manner, though. No sense redirecting the guns prematurely, eh?

Posted: **Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:06 pm**

YAY! IT'S FIXED!!!

Seems Tom managed to get it all worked out - both the EGB stats AND NG LOGS are back and operational again!

I PM'd TOM with a big thank-you, and made a post on the NG Logs thread as well.

Okay, folks - the crisis is over. Nothing more to see here. Time to get back to your regularly scheduled abuse...er. I mean lives...hehehe

Posted: **Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:14 pm**

ByteSlinger wrote::o Aw, Crap!!!!!!!

As of 5:30 am (NY time) on 6/30/2010

I was about to say that you were reporting that this was occurring 5 hours and 15 minutes INTO THE FUTURE from the time you posted. lmao! Then I got a closer look, that was 5:30 AM! Not PM!

Man, that made me freak for a sec. lmao

Posted: **Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:39 pm**

SlntCobra1 wrote:
ByteSlinger wrote::o Aw, Crap!!!!!!!

As of 5:30 am (NY time) on 6/30/2010

I was about to say that you were reporting that this was occurring 5 hours and 15 minutes INTO THE FUTURE from the time you posted. lmao! Then I got a closer look, that was 5:30 AM! Not PM! Man, that made me freak for a sec. lmao

Logs are a beautiful thing. They're up even when you're not.

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