[Esip-cor] cloudflare

[Carlos Rueda]

Hi all,

Here's my take:

- Underlying libraries that power the COR make HTTP requests that include
the header 'User-Agent: Java/1.8'.
- Because of this header, Cloudflare blocks these requests.
- this affects many parts of the functionality in the COR, making it almost
unusable
- Strictly speaking, IMO, this not an issue with Cloudflare nor with Java8
- but the fact that "bots" out there have also used java8 for making
malicious/repeated requests against a variety of sites (btw, probably,
never to COR) has prompted ISP providers or middlewares like Cloudflare to
just start blocking such requests

Some possible solutions, not necessary mutually exclusive:
- if easy, non-critical (I'm not sure), disable cloudflare, at least
temporarily (while some of the folllwing can also be advanced)
- Adjust relevant parts in the code to set an explicit, proper user-agent
header (some parts already updated are now working again).  Not sure when
this all can be completed because the change is trickier when they are
behind other libraries and, unfortunately, my time is very limited.

thanks,
Carlos


On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 2:12 PM Annie Burgess via Esip-cor <
esip-cor at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 1:57 PM Annie Burgess <annieburgess at esipfed.org>
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>> Hey David,
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>> The ESIP Community Ontology Repository (cor.esipfed.org) is having some
>> issues with CloudFlare. They can describe the issue - this email is just to
>> connect you all!
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>> AB
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