Chris <portmaster_at_bsdforge.com> wrote on Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 04:31:22 UTC :
> On 2025-04-16 15:33, Dimitry Andric wrote: > > On 16 Apr 2025, at 23:40, Chris <portmas...@bsdforge.com> wrote: > >> > >> When I attempt to examine a commit for a port at > >> https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/... > >> I'm confronted with a cartoon picture that > >> says "Making sure you're not a bot", then "Success!" > >> The "Making sure you're not a bot" and "Success!" > >> repeat continuously without end. I've not observed that behavior at all so far. I did have a fairly long sequence of it reporting "invalid response." from Anubis for each try. Then it started working again and has so far. It may take some problem identification/isolation before it goes as smooth as one might hope. > This is unhelpful > >> and makes it impossible to use this service. I was lucky in that "invalid response." notices ended up being temporary. > >> > >> Thanks for taking the time to read and consider. > > > Thank you very much for the quick reply, Dimitry! :) > > > This is an unfortunate measure that has to be taken by more and more > > sites, to prevent bad crawlers from eating all bandwidth and CPU. Read > > for instance: > > > Yep. the page also mentioned this. But just kept looping. Hopefully, if others get such, they will report it as well --as well as some folks going for a time not seeing the problem reporting that status as well. > > https://sourcehut.org/blog/2025-04-15-you-cannot-have-our-users-data/ > > > > As to your particular problem, I can only say that it works for me. The > > Anubis software tells your browser to calculate a bunch of hashes, then > > only lets you in once it has done enough "work". > > > > My suspicion is that your browser is refusing cookies, which is (as far > > as I understand) necessary for Anubis to work properly. Or you are using > > some other form of script/cookie blocking. > I don't arbitrarily eat cookies. Why should I? Unless it's a site that I > need to store preferences and such. The page indicated that my browser > performed > 303 iterations and indicated success. But just continued to keep on looping. > This is a failure on the part of the implementation. Not clear what the contributing specifics were. But such problems are not universal. > Success should mean > success. > I am given no clue as to why I'm not directed to my intended page. IMHO from > my experience here Anubis is a disservice. :( I've had more activity blocked during the scans of the FreeBSD web interface than I've had activity blocked by Anubis --so far. But it is rather soon to be making overall judgments about such in my view. > But with your informative reply, I now know that I'll need to accept cookies > from cgit.freebsd.org. :) === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
