Cloudflare: Sorry, you have been blocked

[DavidPesticcio]

When using clipper to save a URL, the page that is saved is an error page from Cloudflare.

URL: https://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/muscle-and-muscle-fibers.html

Entry saved by Joplin Desktop:

Please enable cookies.

Sorry,you have been blocked

You are unable to accessmuscleandstrength.com

Why have I been blocked?

This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase,a SQL command or malformed data.

What can I do to resolve this?

You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.

Cloudflare Ray ID:82040538de9c76ab•Your IP:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX•Performance &security by[Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/5xx-error-landing)

Environment

Joplin 2.12.18 (prod, linux)

Client ID: 54779b3642f240eb98c033a28110fcef
Sync Version: 3
Profile Version: 43
Keychain Supported: No

Revision: e47b908 (master)

Platform:
OS specifics: Arch Linux - up-to-date (in docker container on Linux Mint 21.1)

Steps to reproduce

1. Visit https://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/muscle-and-muscle-fibers.html
2. Open Joplin Web Clipper
3. Select "Clip complete page (HTML)"
4. Select "Confirm"
5. Open Joplin Desktop app, the Cloudflare error page is saved instead of the page at above URL

Describe what you expected to happen

Save the page at above URL instead of the Cloudflare error page.

Logfile

I suspect the first line of the saved page is enough info to begin with - "Please enable cookies." 😃

[github-actions]

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[DavidPesticcio]

@laurent22 - Where should I create this bug report on the Joplin forum? :-/

[laurent22]

I looked into it but there's not fix at this point

[DavidPesticcio]

Okay, thanks for the quick feedback. 👍

It may be worth taking a look at how yt-dlp handle cookies.

[DavidPesticcio]

Another example entry saved by Joplin Desktop:

URL: https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/42495/what-could-cause-high-hc-and-co-but-low-no-and-co2-in-a-smog-test

Please enable cookies.

Sorry,you have been blocked

You are unable to accesssstatic.net

Why have I been blocked?

This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase,a SQL command or malformed data.

What can I do to resolve this?

You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.

Cloudflare Ray ID:8a0ae9cdceb524d2•Your IP:92.40.198.204•Performance &security by[Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/5xx-error-landing)

[DavidPesticcio]

@laurent22 - Is Cloudflare the problem, or does Joplin just need a new mechanism to navigate this cookie issue?

[laurent22]

Cloudflare is the problem, they actively prevent us and similar apps to capture the page.