Re: [liberationtech] Iran has been blocked Facebook's Bots ( crawlers )

2014-06-20 Thread Nariman Gharib
Hi Collin, If you check it from Facebook debugger tool on Facebook website you will see this is happening. Also for sure you can check khabaronline website too. Thanks Nariman > On Jun 20, 2014, at 9:59 PM, Collin Anderson > wrote: > > Hi Nariman, > > Attempted to fetch Asr Iran using the

Re: [liberationtech] Iran has been blocked Facebook's Bots ( crawlers )

2014-06-20 Thread Collin Anderson
Hi Nariman, Attempted to fetch Asr Iran using the facebookexternalhit User Agent and it worked fine. I suspect this is the product of firewall rules against Facebook's subnets as a backup for when the filter fails, and not an intentional attempt to block Facebook's bot. It certainly would not bene

[liberationtech] Iran has been blocked Facebook's Bots ( crawlers )

2014-06-19 Thread Nariman Gharib
Hi Libtech, >From now on Facebook Bots (or facebookexternalhit ) can't access to Iranian websites in Iran (website hosts inside country) For example when users are going to share a link from a news agency website inside Iran which has a own server inside Iran, people can't see the preview of lin