Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden @john Have you considered making users create accounts in order to download files? Wouldn't that also make it much easier to find offenders by logging who is abusing your service? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/452414/#p452414 -- Audiogames

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden I have updated this month's stats (post 17) with final bandwidth information. In short, the issue continues, and thus we will have to continue taking action accordingly.I would, however, like to thank the many, many people who used the site responsibly

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden I have updated this month's stats (post 17) with final bandwidth information. In short, the issue continues, and thus we will have to continue taking action accordingly.I would, however, like to thank the many, many people who used the site responsibly

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden I have updated this month's stats (post 17) with final bandwidth information. In short, the issue continues, and thus we will have to continue taking action accordingly. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/452367/#p452367 -- Audiogames-reflector

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden We have received several similar reports, where visitors to specific developer pages are seeing false positive alerts.There seems to be very little to nothing we can do about these, other than hope they resolve themselves over time, as has previously been

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden @32, once I get back into using Syncthing I'll contact you about mirroringthe site. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/451459/#p451459 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden Hi,Just to say that you're not the only one experiencing this. What's worse is that on latest firefox there doesn't seem to be a way to bypass this. I wonder if there's a way to report false positives like this for review?Daniel URL: https

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden I just tried to go to the Archive page for Dan Z, and both Firefox and Google basically told me the site was unsafe, that it would put malicious software on my computer. I don't know if this is just a side-effect of your restrictions or some nasty

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden @rwbeardjr:I'll reiterate this: if you want to download a large amount of content from the archive, for any reason, please contact us via email first, so that we can determine the best way to get you what you need without compromising the service for other

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden Could i get files to get it started? I could use File Convoy URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/450928/#p450928 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden @Ethin: sounds good. When you're ready to get started, please send us an email, and we'll figure out the best way to send you the current archive content for your baseline. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/450609/#p450609 -- Audiogames-reflector

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden @Post 28 Check your PMs I would like to Help with it URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/450449/#p450449 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden I would be happy to make something like this available, John (I contacted you in the passed about a mirror, but this will do as well). If I configure wget properly, it should only download those files that were updated and not the hole site after it already

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden For those of you interested, I'll be updating the bandwidth stats in post 17 to include info for the rest of this month. I've also added some historical data as a contrast.@Aaron: the archive definitely isn't going anywhere regardless of the presence

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden @Aaron: the archive definitely isn't going anywhere regardless of the presence of a torrent. The constant traffic is a bigger threat, but hopefully my posting here that I just renewed the domain yesterday will help to alleviate some of the concern.While I

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden While I appreciate the advantages of a torrent and it has been suggested before, it's not something I, personally, have plans to develop in the near or mid future.This said, I certainly don't want to discourage anyone else from doing so. I'll also make sure

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden I would encourage Syncthing, purely because it has some advantages that BTSync does not (i.e. uses far less memory and resources than BTSync does, and is accessible since it uses no GUI client, just a web interface). URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden I don't see why both ways couldn't exist concurrently, much like how, for a time, the Blind Cool Tech archive was hosted on the now-defunct Blind Geek Zone site, but also in a BT Sync folder which those who wanted the entire archive at once were encouraged

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden As long as the website still exists for those who might not have or use bt sync anymore, as it's been a while since I've touched that program. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/450338/#p450338 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden that is a good idea, post 21 URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/450246/#p450246 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden Agree with post 21. That is a good idea URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/450229/#p450229 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden @John: Have you considered offering a BTSync or similar of the archive so those who truly want absolutely everything can grab it all with a minimal of fuss, and stay up to date? The nice thing about some of these distributed systems is that people who

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden Well I'll be damned. My server rarely ever gets such conditions. Hereare my baidwidth stats:Total: 413.68 GiB      received, 509.43 GiB      transferred, 923.11 GiB total (since 2019-01-05)   monthly                     rx      |     tx      |    total

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden Well, I can access the site, so not sure if you want my input.  But I can tell you that after checking every category, and a few of them three times for good measure, I no longer have any 403s.I also downloaded like 10 of the smaller files from various

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden I would like to work with a couple of the people experiencing the 403 issue directly.If you have been blocked from accessing the site but were able to successfully download a file either by retrying or waiting a while and you have a moderate degree

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden I would like to work with a couple of the people experiencing the 403 issue directly.If you have been blocked from accessing the site but were able to successfully download a file either by retrying or waiting a while and you have a moderate degree

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden As I've said previously, if you were banned, you wouldn't be able to access anything. That means refreshing the page wouldn't help you.I'm looking into this issue as best I can, but especially since our high traffic is continuing, the only thing I'll

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden I did, a few weeks ago, download quite a few items, but I wasn't trying to spam, I only was trying to see if that thingy that was supposed to fix the BSC games running on Windows 10 actually worked. So, I still have the error. Even though I wasn't trying

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden Hi. Try refreshing the page a few times. The download should start. And for pages that don’t load it should work. I have been using it because I just fixed my comp and I’m in the process of redownloading everything URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden Hi. Try refreshing the page a few times. The download should start URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/449865/#p449865 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden I sometimes get it and suddenly after few refreshes it works again. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/449803/#p449803 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden I got a 403 error as well, but I can go to the homepage, the news page, and some others just fine URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/449741/#p449741 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden @All: I really appreciate the support for the site. It's a lot easier to deal with these issues when there's users clearly getting a lot from the project.It's also worth noting that I'm not accusing anyone here of the abuse. If someone reading this thread

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden Agreed. Much like there are sites for older pc games, I also agree that the audiogame archive is very important. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/449710/#p449710 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden I was looking around agarchive a few days ago. When I clicked on the developer listing link from the news section, it 403'd, but the second time I tried it, this time from the home page it worked fine so the issue seems to be inconsistent.+1 to both

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden Try to use cloudflare. Heard it caches pages and haves an under attack mode which waits 5 seconds and then  redirects to your website. This should stop robots and  decrease traffic. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/449641/#p449641 -- Audiogames

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden @5: If this unwanted traffic follows the patterns of what I've seen in the past, it's most likely poorly or maliciously programmed bots. They don't care that they're downloading the same files over and over and over again. What's more, even if you move

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden @5, do you mind elaborating on the bans you have? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/449554/#p449554 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden @5, do you mind elaborating on the bans your getting? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/449554/#p449554 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden It seems like every third page for me is consistently getting the 403.  And I haven't downloaded anything from you guys for a month. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/449553/#p449553 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden I've just tested both the main developer listing and Jim's page, and both load normally.It is very possible you're being impacted by a number of bans we put in place after last month's abuse if you're unable to access the entire website.If this is the case

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden Why would it be? And isn't it on the archive? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/449538/#p449538 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden Yeah. I'm hoping it's not being targeted because of some copyright  bot, but no one will know... URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/449530/#p449530 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden Yeah it's happening to me too and it's really worrying. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/449524/#p449524 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden

AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden Hello. So recently I got a new computer and have tried to download the games by Jim Kitchin on the archive. However, every time I try and go to the developer page, my browser gives me a 403 error. Any reasons? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/449507