Questions tagged [cloudflare]
For questions about the Content Delivery Network (CDN) service Cloudflare that is used by Stack Exchange.
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Cloudflare is causing i.sstatic.net images to return 429s
After loading a chat transcript with a large number of images, requests to i.sstatic.net have started returning 429s and a Cloudflare CAPTCHA check, which... seems to defeat the point of a dedicated ...
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Cloudflare is asking for human verification on SE API requests, which blocked flagging by SmokeDetector/metasmoke
Today, SmokeDetector/metasmoke was unable to raise either automatic or manual flags due to Cloudflare asking for human verification on the SE API for a significant period of time.
The response from ...
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We are moving the API behind our CDN
Later today or tomorrow, we will be moving the API behind our Content Delivery Network (CDN). In an effort to better align all our applications, we are moving this and, in the future, other public ...
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Images from i.sstatic.net only work for me after being accessed from another IP address
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There's the new image hosting system and Super User (my main "playground") is trialling it.
My problem is I cannot see images hosted on i.sstatic.net. This is how it looks like:
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Sound Design SE Down? [closed]
When I browse to Sound Design SE, Cloudflare serves a Origin DNS error 1016. Basically, Cloudflare can't resolve this domain. Not sure who is responsible for this, but can someone look into this, ...
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Many sites don't render correctly, static assets cannot be downloaded
This started about 2 days ago, roughly when I first saw Cloudflare's "human verification" confirmation. (As a side note: this confirmation is asked from me once like every hour, which I ...
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Why are many features not working on Tor?
My question got closed as a duplicate as another one. I'd have cast the duplicate vote myself but the bug the post is about prevented me from doing so. But anyway.
Apparently all the GET and POST ...
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Occasionally getting "502 Bad Gateway" errors from Cloudflare when trying to view SE questions
Over the past several days, when clicking on multiple SE questions from a list in relatively rapid succession to open them into new tabs, I've occasionally (1 question among around every 25 on average,...
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Top bar navigation partially lost when accessing from Tor network - unable to post answers or comments
Starting around 2023.09.17, I've been unable to access the review queue, recent inbox, or achievements using the top bar menu, when using TorBrowser. At the network level the response to the GET (for ...
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Hot Network Questions Feed App no longer working
The app I created to offer RSS feeds from Hot Network Questions fails since today to fetch its data from the source.
One of its main endpoints is https://stackexchange.com/hot-questions-json1. It ...
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Human Verification Broken Again
The fix implemented in response to my previous question has broken, and I'm getting requests to re-verify if I refresh after five minutes.
It happens only once (each five minutes) for any *....
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Cloudflare blocks Archive.org from saving network profiles
While saving a regular question page to Archive.org seems to work, when I try to save a network profile page, I'm either getting an error before saving the page "The capture failed because Save ...
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Cloudflare CAPTCHA for Tor Browser
I'm living in a country where it is illegal to access the internet. Thanks to the Tor browser we can access the internet freely. Before today, it was possible to access this website with the Tor ...
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New Cloudflare protection breaking important bots [duplicate]
Something about SE's DDoS protection or human verification must have changed, which has caused several important chatbots to no longer be able to log in.
At first, curling /users/login from my home IP ...
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Every site requesting verification that I'm human
I keep several (many) tabs for SE sites open on a continuous basis. Over the past couple of days, every time I refresh the questions, I'm getting the intercept page that checks the security of my ...
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