to many redirects

[Charlie]

Most of December I was not able to get into the forum with this issue. It would work for a day or so, then not for a week or so and the last couple weeks of the year, not at all. I'm using Chrome. For the last several days, I have been able to get into the forum, but there do not seem to be any posts. I wonder if this issue has effectively killed the forum (and mortally wounded PBP). Certainly I was about to remove it from my shortcut list, and I tend to be slow to do things.

[Charlie]

And right after the above post - no access again. I launched Edge and was able to get in to make this post.

[Ioannis]

Same here too with Chrome. All other browsers work OK for me except Chrome (I am not very fond of this browser...).

Usually I prefer Opera. It is very strange that Opera works OK having Chrome as main core.

Ioannis

[HenrikOlsson]

I access the forum from 3-4 different computers, all running Windows, all using Edge and I've never seen this. (as far as I know Edge is also based on Chrome)
I know this is no comfort for those experiencing the problem but it might help troubleshooting.

[richard]

I wonder if this issue has effectively killed the forum (and mortally wounded PBP).

it certainly has not interfered with online gambling, dodgy black-market drugs and girlie pic spammers.
but it does make forum access from my android things nonfunctional and atpia

[Ioannis]

Regarding the spam we try asap to zap them. Unfortunately this specific problem is beyond my knowledge and skills.

As Richard marked, never the drugs, porn or lighter spam activities have problems sneaking in forums, mails sites... Nasty bastards....

Ioannis

[mpgmike]

At least the porn spam so far has just been links and not embedded images -- at least what I've zapped.

[Ioannis]

I think this is the case. Fortunatlely just links so far.

Hope the problem with the redirects will not spread to other browsers too.

Ioannis

[retepsnikrep]

I can also confirm the forum still does not work with Chrome.

I have to use Edge to use this site.

[Jerson]

I use chromium on Linux and face no problems till now. Occasionally, I have the odd problem of being unable to zap spammers as the thread shows but will not be zapped. Then, I clear cache, reload the page and the zapping happens.

I am suspecting a browser hijack has got installed on the affected machines.

[lester]

OK, Im going to turn off CDN temporarily to see if that affects the issue

pleasev let me know if you see any improvement

[Ioannis]

Now Chrome says for both picabsic.co.uk and dt.picbasic.co.uk:

This site can’t be reached
www.picbasic.co.uk took too long to respond.
Try:

Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
Running Windows Network Diagnostics
ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT



This site can’t be reached
dt.picbasic.co.uk took too long to respond.
Try:

Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
Running Windows Network Diagnostics
ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

On Edge I can access dt.picbasic.co.uk but not forum:

Hmmm… can't reach this page
www.picbasic.co.uk took too long to respond
Try:

Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
Running Windows Network Diagnostics
ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

[Ioannis]

On Opera no delays are noted and have no firefox here to test.

Ioannis

[Ioannis]

Now also dt.picbasic .co.uk is lost.

Ioannis

[tumbleweed]

I'm unable to get at either site using Firefox now.

Had to use IE11

[lester]

Do you see the same issue if visiting dt.picbasic.co.uk ??

[Ioannis]

On http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/forum.php no change.

The dt.picbasic.co.uk works OK though only on chrome not on Edge!

Ioannis

[Ioannis]

The forum is on Https and dt.picbasic.co.uk on http ? Is that correct?

Ioannis

[lester]

Just checking I can upload imges without problems.

Seems OK

Oh and this is how the server is secured.

We are secure to Cloudflare and Cloudflare secures to the end users browser.

[Ioannis]

Well, regarding pictures or other files, we now see this screen, that is not as easy as what used to be. And does not give you feedback if you did attached a file.

You have to submit your post and then confirm that a file was attached. No VBcodes or anything else.

Ioannis

[Ioannis]

I am sorry, but after my first on http://dt.picbasic.co.uk/ (Chrome) it stopped working that too.

So it seems after the first visit, none sites work anymore on Chrome and Edge.

Ioannis

[lester]

If you exit the picbasic.co.uk page and clear your browser cache, Cookies and all site data. Close your browser. Re-Open and vist the site, you should see that the site is secure and running a certificate from a trusted CA ( cloudflare). The whole site is running behind cloudflare.