Post by James » Fri Jul 11, 2014 4:21 pm

Over the last few weeks we have been receiving multiple DDOS attacks on the http://www.opencart.com website. It has been causing the extensions page and other sections of the site to run painfully slow - we apologise for this!

We've now taken steps to try and mitigate these attacks as they occur by using CloudFlare and routing all traffic through them. At times you may see a browser page check, this is ensure you are playing by the rules - if any suspicious traffic is detected then it will not be allowed through.

Thanks for your continued patience!

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**** UPDATE ****

Due to an issue with the CloudFlare IPs some orders are being marked as potential fraud and some are not showing as confirmed by the payment gateways, we are working to try and resolve this issue as quickly as possible.

If your order is missing from your account area or stays pending for more than 12 hours please create a support ticket and ensure you include the following information to help resolve the issue quicker:

ORDER ID
EMAIL ADDRESS (your PayPal email and your account email address)
PAYMENT METHOD (PayPal or MoneyBookers)
PAYMENT TRANSACTION ID
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Post by i2Paq » Fri Jul 11, 2014 4:30 pm

I've seen it and I know other sites use it to.

Good/great move!

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Post by OpDev » Fri Jul 11, 2014 5:01 pm

Hope this will be enough!

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Post by mikeltn » Fri Jul 11, 2014 5:23 pm

has anyone had trouble with uploading extensions?
ajaxupload.js throws script error then 403 exception

happened when I tried to add new download to an existing extension

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Post by James » Fri Jul 11, 2014 5:37 pm

@mikeltn - try again, I have added a custom rule for this section. It seems that the post action with the javascript was triggering some rules in CF.

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Post by mikeltn » Fri Jul 11, 2014 6:00 pm

seems to work OK now, thanks James
James wrote:@mikeltn - try again, I have added a custom rule for this section. It seems that the post action with the javascript was triggering some rules in CF.

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Post by James » Fri Jul 11, 2014 7:42 pm

Great. The attack is ongoing so panic mode has been left enabled for now - it seems that there is some loss in usability like this across the site. If anyone spots something that isn't working I'll do my best to patch it asap.

But even if there is some things that won't work - it's better than a slow or even unavailable website :)

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Post by JAY6390 » Sat Jul 12, 2014 12:04 am

Just noticed a bug - Tried to send a PM on the forums to another user, and it went to the cloudcache browser check before sending. When the browser check was complete, it actually just went back to the pm page with the original quote and all of my reply got lost. Probably not much that can be done about it, but thought you would want to be aware

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Post by Dhaupin » Sat Jul 12, 2014 1:12 am

JAY6390 wrote:Just noticed a bug - Tried to send a PM on the forums to another user, and it went to the cloudcache browser check before sending. When the browser check was complete, it actually just went back to the pm page with the original quote and all of my reply got lost. Probably not much that can be done about it, but thought you would want to be aware
That keeps happening to me as well with page requests in general. Doesnt remember is state going into the check, just dumps back to last spot before request.

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Post by James » Sat Jul 12, 2014 2:40 am

JAY6390 wrote:Just noticed a bug - Tried to send a PM on the forums to another user, and it went to the cloudcache browser check before sending. When the browser check was complete, it actually just went back to the pm page with the original quote and all of my reply got lost. Probably not much that can be done about it, but thought you would want to be aware
Yeah I've been getting that today pretty much all over the sites - its because CF checks every 15 mins. I've changed it to 7 days (so you might see it once more) but that should be it. I've also disabled that check on the forums as there is a firewall module specifically for phpbb anyway - should resolve these issues.

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Post by JAY6390 » Sat Jul 12, 2014 3:11 am

Ah great cheers, yeah the browser check did seem to be pretty frequent. once a week sounds much better :)

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Post by testje » Sun Jul 13, 2014 8:00 am

I made and payed an order (via worthless skrill) and it is not in my downloads or even order history. Looks like it is completly lost somewhere.
Hope it is fixed soon, because -ofcourse- I need it asap ;D

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Post by James » Sun Jul 13, 2014 6:29 pm

Daniel is resolving the outstanding orders, the overall issue with moneybookers payment is resolved now.

Testje your order should be marked as complete very soon but if not please created a support ticket and the team will help out.

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Post by scanreg » Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:45 pm

thanks for explaining cloudflare

btw, does anyone know if google accounts for cloudflare when calculating pagespeed?

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Post by James » Sun Jul 13, 2014 11:24 pm

Scanreg not sure what you mean accounts for cloudflare? Pretty sure if anything though it will take into account the speed is improvd d due to caching but if you have any concerns just send them an email - they have been great with us for support.

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Post by JAY6390 » Mon Jul 14, 2014 11:44 pm

Google will still class the speed as being your website, not cloudflare due to the domain being yours

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Post by melbagnato » Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:32 pm

I got blocked replying to a question sent to me via a PM. I had attached a zip file with a spreadsheet inside it (since we can't attach spreadsheets).

My reference code was this:
CloudFlare Ray ID: 14d4ea8f10d70b26 • Your IP: 202.177.218.91
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Post by James » Mon Jul 21, 2014 4:42 pm

How big was the file? Try using far instead see if that works

Anyone else see this issue?

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Post by sml » Thu Jul 24, 2014 9:15 pm

I don't think I have ever visited a website with this weird security check delay thing.

Why is OpenCart one of the very few (or only) websites in the world to do this?

Why is OpenCart different to say Amazon or ebay or google who dont have this weird & unprofessional check.

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Post by i2Paq » Thu Jul 24, 2014 10:31 pm

sml wrote:I don't think I have ever visited a website with this weird security check delay thing.

Why is OpenCart one of the very few (or only) websites in the world to do this?

Why is OpenCart different to say Amazon or ebay or google who dont have this weird & unprofessional check.
Ik know of a few, even in The Netherlands, who are using this.

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