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I was attempting to check that my extensions were all up to date. After clicking re-check all versions it doesn't show what ones are. Usually some are green and others are red I think. If I click on one extension for details it says it failed to get current version info. For the heck of it I made a...

david63 wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 02, 2020 12:52 pm

hurghanico wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 02, 2020 12:49 pm

Is there something I can do to fix it by myself?

Play with the css

Thanks for the suggestion..

I solved by replacing the current cookie.css file with the one belonging to the previous versions of this extension.

Thanks again David for this useful extension.. Lately I upgraded my board to phpBB3 v.3.3.0 with PHP 7.1.3, and installed the latest Privacy Policy ext version compatible with it. It's working ok but I would like to center the banner to accept the cookies which at the moment appears at the bottom le...

Update

AlterVista responded positively to my request and told me that in a few days the user agent issue will be resolved. They'll let me know.

EA117 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 06, 2019 3:44 pm

Hopefully AlterVista is willing to change their identification.

A few hours ago I asked AlterVista if they could update the user agent they add to the queries coming from the sites hosted by them.
I hope they will.
As soon as I hear from them I will report here.

Paul wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 06, 2019 11:56 am

The phpBB version check goes to version.phpbb.com, not www.phpbb.com

thanks for the clarification, but the substance of what I said previously does not change ..
in my previous post I should have written: *.phpbb.com

We block on www.phpbb.com any requests that come from older browsers. This has in place since the beginning of August. This is not something we will remove. Ok. Good to know, and thanks for reporting it. However based on what has emerged so far from this thread it seems that www.phpbb.com is not bl...

If AlterVista said that their adding the User-Agent on the outbound requests wasn't a new behavior, maybe check with them whether the MSIE version included in the User-Agent they added is new or different than it was before. And, of course, ask them whether they have any objection to setting it to ...

Or hurghanico, if you're still talking to AlterVista, maybe that's something you could have them answer too: What is the agent name they're asserting into your phpBB server's request. Though the answer from phpbb.com's or David's logs would be more definitive as to the agent name which ultimately a...

I’ll admit I haven’t read all of this but I noticed one thing, using the url you gave originally http://allabouthd500x.altervista.org/ gives me a not found error but it seems you have a redirect that points to https://allabouthd500x.altervista.org/allabouthd500x/ which Is the correct address and al...

david63 wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 05, 2019 6:41 pm

The bottom line here is that there is nothing inherently wrong with the process, as has been proven by access to my version control.

There appears to be a problem with accessing phpBB therefore the correct procedure is to file a bug report.

This is what I will probably do at this point.

Report

After having backup the original one I uploaded the kindly supplied file_downloader.php into the phpbb folder.

I purged both the board and the cloudlfare caches and waited a little, then I checked again all the versions: board and extensions..

Nothing changed. Same behavior as before.

It might have been something simply "lost in translation", but if they were looking at the actual outgoing traffic, I'm surprised they would say "replaced" the agent name. Instead of "added" an agent name, since they would have seen that the phpBB's original request simply didn't have an agent name...

If the checks by phpbb.com will confirm that the problem is caused by the user agent replaced by AlterVista, I wonder what the solution might be (if any) in that case, at least on my part.. ..and however I still wonder why the version check of the extensions has always worked well with all the phpBB...

Update: I received a reply from the AlterVista forum support guys. Here it is (translated to english): "After the necessary checks, AlterVista sends correctly the requests to their server. The only detail that can affect is that the user agent set by the application is overwritten by an AlterVista o...