Blocked Requests

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stwnkr.top

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Hello, I am currently hosting my domain, stwnkr.top on here and I’ve recently came across a problem regarding the requests made from an integration on telegram on my website.

When telegram tries to contact my website, the website apparently does not even receive the request, while I made sure that all the endpoints are correct, there seems to not be any specific explanation for the blocking, as if something I cannot control is currently blocking telegram’s requests.

I have checked multiple times, and all I could try, I tried to do, and it didn’t work.

Therefore I am asking if there are conditions under which the website is limited and turned off for some specific websites and IPs, even if my quotas are completely under the limit, approx. 200 out of 50,000 requests, and barely 180MB of bandwidth, of which I may not be aware.

Thank you in advance for any provided support.

  • stwnkr

Hi and welcome to the forum! It’s probably because of this:

Plus Telegram’s APIs are blocked on free hosting, so what @KangJL said as well.

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Telegram is blocked on free hosting

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Only since yesterday though, it always worked on my website until then.

That is mainly why I am asking on here, the integration was successfully running without any apparent problem, while consuming basically nothing. If it then is considered api hosting I’d argue that an API hosting would quite easily reach the limits of bandwidth and requests per day, of which I barely got around 1% of it (200/50000).

It seems your website is using Cloudflare, which used to bypass the browser validation system (under the assumption that Cloudflare provides adequate protection). But something appears to have changed and now Cloudflare is no longer exempt.

I’m not sure exactly what changed or why, but I can tell you that I cannot guarantee that the previous situation where you could receive webhooks while using Cloudflare will be restored.

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Could you give me more information about what seems to have changed?

Additionally, is there something I can do on infinityfree’s end?

In short, if you do not use Cloudflare, then access to your website from things that are not browsers is not possible. Specifically, that’s caused by this security system: Ensuring only web browsers can access your website

However, if you use Cloudflare, then it used to be that this system was bypassed (because Cloudflare also provides protection to your website). But that appears to have changed.

As far as I can tell, this was a deliberate system change. Handling these webhooks should not have worked in the first place, and that has been “fixed”.

And as the article linked to before says: the security system is enabled on all accounts and cannot be disabled. So no, there is nothing you can do to change that.

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