+Team kizb Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Check this out. Along with the new site updates it looks like Groundspeak has found a way to stop (or at least slow down) automated data retrieval from their servers. They explain it in the Knowledge Books under 13.12. A Brief Intermission and this is what it looks like: If you are not human it looks like you'll get a binary response of: 011100000110110001100101011000010111001101100101001000000111001101110100011011110111000000100000011000010110001001110101011100110110100101101110011001110010000001110100011010000110010100100000011001100110010101100001011101000111010101110010011001010111001100100000011011110110011000100000011101000110100001101001011100110010000001110011011010010111010001100101 Which says "please stop abusing the features of this site" Quote Link to comment
+Tatty Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 (edited) Yes and this annoying 60 sec delay pops up when I'm trying to grab my PQs And I waited my 60sec, completed the captcha and it has now reset and giving me another 60sec wait before being allowed to try the captcha again And again! Edited December 21, 2010 by Tatty Quote Link to comment
+Rotareneg Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 It seems to be stuck in an infinite loop for me as well. I guess I must be answering the captcha faster than a human should be able to... Quote Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 The last time this happened, some of the clocks on Groundspeak servers were out of sync. Quote Link to comment
+Rotareneg Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 After closing and then reloading Firefox the site stopped redirecting to that page, though I'm not sure if that was what fixed it or if it was just a coincidence. I had more than one tab open, one on the new beta map, another on the forum, and another trying to look at a cache, so perhaps the site saw all the extra connections and assumed I was a bot or something. Quote Link to comment
+Tatty Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Something that should have taken 2 min instead took 55min to complete, lets hope that is the end of it. I only had the one window open, but it seems others were getting the same lockout all over the site when we were having the PQ issue. Quote Link to comment
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