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Re:A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library inde... by jraby3 on Friday December 30, 2022 @04:54AM (#34183576)
I got an error when visiting zlib.zu1k.com/. Error code: 1020 Ray ID: 7819e5389c898e4e Country: IL Data center: tlv03 IP: 85.65.187.66 Timestamp: 2022-12-30 09:54:40 UTC
Re:A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library inde... by SanjayMehta on Friday December 30, 2022 @06:28AM (#34184080)
Same here. Was working a few hours ago.
Re:A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library inde... by 0ct4via on Friday December 30, 2022 @12:04PM (#34186984)
It's possible they were "hugged" enough to instigate a firewall rule dramatically cutting down allowed visitors, which would explain the Error 1020.

Might be worth reaching out to the site's creator -- info taken from their site [https://zu1k-com/about/]:

"If you have any questions to communicate with me, the preferred way is to comment directly in the comment area of the corresponding blog post, and I will receive an email notification

In addition, you can also reach me in the following ways:

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @zu1k_lv

GitHub: @zu1k

Keybase: @zu1k

Matrix: @zu1k:mozilla.org

My PGP public key can be obtained at https://pgp.zu1k.com or hkps: //keyserver.ubuntu.com

( 2A65 F6F3 1EDA D922 D7E7 E97B AE38 1A8F B1EF 2CC8)"

Re:A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library inde... by neop1x on Friday December 30, 2022 @05:45PM (#34191024)
People should stop over-using CloudFlare for everything. IMO it is not good for IFS "hosting", either.

They act like gatekeepers. Along with blocking, as in this case, they make browser assumptions that force visitors to use one of the most recent mainstream "approved" and unmodified browsers.

For other browsers, they serve "Checking if the site connection is secure" with javascript fingerprinting and a captcha, and sometimes even solving the captcha won't let me in. i have also seen frontends misbehaving due to them not expecting cloudflare error response codes.

Some dvelopers apparenly just blindly enable cloudflare and don't care. :(

Re:A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library inde... by nukemandan on Saturday December 31, 2022 @06:32PM (#34201845)