Question CloudFlare and DBSEO external link titles

sweepsmaster · May 14, 2015

Just migrated from vbseo to dbseo pro. I noticed the external link titles say cloud flare instead of the site title meta tag. This is a test

I am using CloudFlare

I am also getting some errors on the search page:
Sweepstakes Advantage Forum

Please advise

Fillip H. · May 14, 2015

That can happen if there's an error message on the resulting site and they're displaying CloudFlare's error page.

sweepsmaster · May 14, 2015

Is there a page or process url that goes out and checks for the meta data title? I think cloudflare firewall is blocking that process or bot. Please advise.

sweepsmaster · May 15, 2015

It's been over 24 hours since my last reply and I've paid for this product. Can I get an answer on this? Surely someone else has run into this who is using cloudflare as their firewall.

Fillip H. · May 15, 2015

sweepsmaster said:
Is there a page or process url that goes out and checks for the meta data title? I think cloudflare firewall is blocking that process or bot. Please advise.

We send a cURL request to the domain in question, and parse the response data for the contents of the <head> tag in the resulting XML file.

sweepsmaster said:
It's been over 24 hours since my last reply and I've paid for this product. Can I get an answer on this? Surely someone else has run into this who is using cloudflare as their firewall.

While we try to respond to queries as fast as possible, we do not offer a SLA for support and the price of the product does not include support. Support for our products is an entirely free service that we provide.

Please also bear in mind that I am single-handedly responsible for supporting over 50 products, so it's hard for me to do my daily development duties and also answer support instantly at all hours of the day

Thank you for your patience and understanding

sweepsmaster · May 15, 2015

OK, more specifically what file or page is requesting the <head> information? Seems like cloudflare is blocking it from accessing our pages. I'd like to add a new rule that gives that process/page permission to fetch the info. Currently it comes back with a cloudflare permission error. Thank you.

Fillip H. · May 17, 2015

The function linkExternalTitles in /dbtech/dbseo/includes/class_core.php.

sweepsmaster · May 18, 2015

Seems like you are not specifying a user agent and this is why cloud flare may be blocking this?

curl_setopt ($cu, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);

e.g. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)

or use the current users own browser agent using $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']

sweepsmaster · May 19, 2015

My developer actually tried specifying a user agent for the curl request but this also was blocked. Cloud flare is looking for a captcha response and your script does not have this capability. I'd like to report this as a bug.

Fillip H. · May 19, 2015

I'm a bit confused, you're reporting the inability for our automated software to submit anti-automated software codes as a bug?

CAPTCHA is specifically created so that scripts (like DBSEO, and like spam bots) cannot bypass it.

sweepsmaster · May 19, 2015

Sorry for any trouble. I added an extra range of IP(s) to the firewall white list and now this is working. If anyone else encounters this problem and is hosted on a cloud and using cloudflare make sure to get a full list of IP(s) from your host and white list them on cloudflare. Thank you!

Fillip H. · May 20, 2015

No problem, glad you got it working

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