Questions tagged [cloudflare]
For questions about the Content Delivery Network (CDN) service Cloudflare that is used by Stack Exchange.
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SEDE is hitting the 429 error way too often due to how SEDE works
There have been a couple of previous reports on 429 errors when using SEDE. There is one marked status-norepro and I'm here to re-raise that issue, not as a support ticket but as a bug.
Here is ...
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Cloudflare email protection has a high false-positive rate
This is similar to Disable Cloudflare's "Email Address Obfuscation" feature, but is reporting on the fact that the detection has a high false-positve rate (whereas the similar question ...
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Unable to run any SEDE queries as Cloudflare keeps blocking them from running with a verification screen
I'm unable to run any single Stack Exchange Data Explorer query. I keep getting an error that "something unexpected went wrong while running your query".
Per this prior post, this happens ...
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Cloudflare captcha threshold is too high
Please can the block threshold for the managed challenge be raised? I can't access any Stack Exchange sites at all now when behind my company's proxy. This is just within the last week or so that I ...
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Cloudflare captchas are making me use SE a lot less (and AI more)
Ever since the introduction of Cloudflare captchas, I hesitate clicking on SE links because of the captchas/proof of work. The proof of work step seems to require the tab being in foreground, so ...
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"Something unexpected went wrong while running your query. Don't worry blame is already being assigned" while in fact it needs Cloudflare verification
Happened to me a few times this week: I try to run an SEDE query, get this error
Something unexpected went wrong while running your query. Don't worry, blame is already being assigned.
while in fact ...
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Cloudflare blocking Wayback Machine from archiving Stack Exchange questions
Recently, whenever I try to archive a question using the Wayback Machine, Cloudflare's been blocking the attempt:
Given that any negative impact on the Wayback Machine's ability to archive SE pages ...
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Stack Overflow isn't available in Russia anymore due ban of the new IP
Looks like Russia got a (partial?) restriction to access Stack Overflow after the IPs of the SO sites were changed during the recent maintenance.
Affected sites example:
https://ru.stackoverflow.com/
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Frequent 403 errors due to cloudflare captcha in sstatic.net domain
In the recent few weeks, I frequently observe that the webpage looks broken for all StackExchange websites:
It seems that all resources under the sstatic.net domain (including all JS and CSS files) ...
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Our robots.txt file is changing to allow only CloudFlare's verified bots
I’m elo, Stack Exchange’s Director of Reliability Engineering. I’ve been employed at Stack Exchange for just over three years - but this is my first time posting here on Meta!
On December 10th, our ...
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Cloudflare CAPTCHA is blocking all Stack Overflow pages in macOS Safari
I am a normal, real person trying to browse Stack Overflow from home. No weird office network issues or etc. No bots. A normal number of requests.
Every Stack Overflow page is blocked due to this ...
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Impossible to solve Cloudflare Captcha due to timeouts
For the past 15 minutes I've been trying to solve a captcha that keeps refreshing to the same page and the reason, because it's set to timeout in 500ms on a line that has 1 second latency.
It keeps ...
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Stack Overflow's Cloudflare Usage FAQ
How does Stack Overflow leverage Cloudflare?
Stack Overflow uses CDNs and their various tools to better serve the site's content. The current primary CDN provider is Cloudflare. While this isn't a ...
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Mostly unable to see images on Stack Exchange sites
A few months ago I largely lost the ability to see images on Stack Exchange sites, but only on my office computer (and all coworkers have the same issue, so it's not my computer, but maybe our office ...
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I seem to be in the cloudflare penalty box, is there anything I can do to get out?
For about the last week or so, when I visit a page on SO, and have not visited a page in the last minute or so, I get a note that cloudflare is verifying that I am a human. Sometimes there is a ...
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