I tried to post a followup to a previous reply of my own on a thread asking whether it was possible to rename an audio device, and when I attempted to preview my reply, I got the following message from Cloudflare:
Sorry, you have been blocked
You are unable to access applevis.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: 9599ae660ef8e281
While I cannot post the offending content here for obvious reasons, I can send a markdown file with it via E-mail if an administrator contacts me to verify that there's nothing fishy in the reply that I was composing.
Comments
I honestly feel just sorry,…
I honestly feel just sorry, yet can't help but laugh at the same time. It's such an edge case... Love what you've been doing!! :)
Security Measure
Hi João,
Thank you for letting us know about this!
Cloudflare blocks certain actions that could have potential security risks. As it relates to the sharing of code, we unfortunately do not allow the posting of Objective-C or other types of code on the site; due to risks from injection and other possible threats from bad actors. To be absolutely clear, I know your intentions are good; it is just that allowing the sharing of code introduces security risks that we do not wish to take.
Best,
Michael
No problem
I ended up working around the problem by posting the code as a GitHub Gist and linking to it in my comment to the aforementioned thread so it's no longer an issue. In the future I might actually just keep doing that, but the problem is that GitHub's web interface is not a good example in terms of accessibility even though it is accessible, as other blind people who aren't used to it are known to have trouble navigating the site. However while composing this comment I remember that I can just link to the raw content of the file instead of to GitHub's web interface so all the problems can be worked around perfectly, plus I plan on creating a personal web site to document my next venture as a self-funded tech entrepreneur so posting small code examples that demystify things that people perceive to be complex is probably a good way to generate interest as well.