Same here. It let me in.

Did you copy this file to the root directory?

https://github.com/scotch/operation_curl_block/blob/master/appengine_config.py

Maybe the instance needs to be restarted? Does anyone else have any ideas?

- Kyle


On Aug 2, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Wilson MacGyver wrote:

> it's not working, I did curl 'http://www.australiansabroad.com/' and
> it let me in
> 
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Kate <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks Kyle,
>> 
>> I don't have a system with access to curl and will download it for Windows
>> later. Meanwhile I've put your code on my site.
>> 
>> Can you test it with curl for me? I tried testing for user agent starting
>> with  Mozilla , from Firefox but it didn't work.
>> 
>> http://www.australiansabroad.com
>> 
>> Many thanks!!!!!!
>> 
>> Kate
>> 
>> On Thursday, August 2, 2012 4:42:44 PM UTC-4, Kyle Finley wrote:
>>> 
>>> Kate, sorry there were some errors
>>> 
>>> Here's a working example:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/scotch/operation_curl_block/blob/master/appengine_config.py
>>> 
>>> It should be "status" not "status_code", AntiCurlMiddleware not
>>> AntiCurlMiddlewarey and I used startswith instead of is
>>> 
>>> You can test it here:
>>> 
>>> curl -v http://anticurl.scotch-media.appspot.com
>>> 
>>> will return:
>>> 
>>> * About to connect() to anticurl.scotch-media.appspot.com port 80 (#0)
>>> *   Trying 173.194.77.141... connected
>>> * Connected to anticurl.scotch-media.appspot.com (173.194.77.141) port 80
>>> (#0)
>>>> GET / HTTP/1.1
>>>> User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (universal-apple-darwin11.0) libcurl/7.21.4
>>>> OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5
>>>> Host: anticurl.scotch-media.appspot.com
>>>> Accept: */*
>>>> 
>>> < HTTP/1.1 423 Locked
>>> < Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
>>> < Vary: Accept-Encoding
>>> < Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:40:13 GMT
>>> < Server: Google Frontend
>>> < Cache-Control: private
>>> < Transfer-Encoding: chunked
>>> <
>>> * Connection #0 to host anticurl.scotch-media.appspot.com left intact
>>> * Closing connection #0
>>> Too many requests!
>>> 
>>> I hope that helps
>>> 
>>> - Kyle
>>> 
>>> On Thursday, August 2, 2012 2:47:57 PM UTC-5, Kate wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I am looking for 'win' in user agent as that IS the USER Agent I am using
>>>> to test. It should evaluate to true  and give a 423 error.
>>>> 
>>>> I do not want to test it using curl. I am trying to see if I can return a
>>>> 423 error. It is a TEST!
>>>> 
>>>> I am running it locally to see if it will block.
>>>> 
>>>> It doesn't.
>>>> 
>>>> 'Win' is in my user agent - as I am testing.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Thursday, August 2, 2012 3:43:44 PM UTC-4, hyperflame wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> You're trying to find curl requests by looking for a "win" string?
>>>>> IIRC, curl uses "curl" as its default user-agent, you have to look for
>>>>> that. Also, it's a bad idea to look for "Win", as legitimate requests
>>>>> (users using WINdows) will be blocked.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Also, it should be noted (and I believe a number of people have
>>>>> already mentioned) that curl allows a person to change their user-
>>>>> agent; just looking for a "curl" user-agent may not stop the problem.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Aug 2, 1:55 pm, Kate <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> Well I tried this by testing user agent but it passes the test and the
>>>>>> page
>>>>>> loads correctly, which it shouldn't in this example.
>>>>>> Am I meant to pass 'app' as such? I am not sure of this parameter.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Here is my code
>>>>>> from webob import Response
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> class AntiCurlMiddleware(object):
>>>>>>    def __init__(self, app):
>>>>>>        self.app = app
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    def __call__(self, environ, start_response):
>>>>>>        ua = os.environ.get('HTTP_USER_AGENT', "unknown")
>>>>>> sindex = string.find(ua,'Win',0)
>>>>>> if sindex > 0:
>>>>>>      resp = Response('Too many requests!')
>>>>>>      resp.status_code = 423
>>>>>>      return resp(environ, start_response)
>>>>>>        return self.app(environ, start_response)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> def webapp_add_wsgi_middleware(app):
>>>>>>    return AntiCurlMiddlewarey(app)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 4:43:58 PM UTC-4, Kate wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I am getting tens of thousands of curl requests - many thousands
>>>>>>> time
>>>>>>> browser requests and I want to block them. I'm using python. They
>>>>>>> coming
>>>>>>> from many different IPs most in Europe.  If I can't stop them I will
>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>> to close my site or go to a new provider.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thank in advance,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Kate
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