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Author Topic: Cloudflare protection?  (Read 6553 times)

absoblogginlutely

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Cloudflare protection?
« on: March 22, 2025, 08:12 AM »
Has cloudflare protection been recently enabled for the donation coder site and any chance that file downloads could be excluded from the protection (although I get that might be an unwanted feature as file downloads are probably the biggest bandwidth usage.)
I look after the screenshotcaptor chocolatey package and it is now failing as the human/bot checking fails when downloading the installer with PowerShell and so the install package is broken.
Wondering whether cloudflare caching could be enabled instead which would cache the content on their servers which means you wouldn't be hosting much of the downloads and would have the advantage of localised downloads from cloudflare's cdn instead?

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Re: Cloudflare protection?
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2025, 04:08 PM »
Yes, Cloudflare's DDOS protection was recently enabled.

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Re: Cloudflare protection?
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2025, 09:56 PM »
i apologize for the frustrations.
caching for downloads seem like a good idea let me see if i can figure out how to do that.