>i don;t get the 'are you a human' page with any of them lucky you: cloudflare's automated systems deems it unnecessary to challenge you. A variation of a "trustworthy IP range" and "correct-looking headers" and "an SSL/TLS implementation behaving like a web browser" cause people to not get challenged at all (see https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate for more info on the ssl/tls part)
>IP meaning -> internet facing address and not intellectual property? yes internet facing address. >btw how did you find out about cloudfare running the 'bot fight mode'? It's behaving similarly to cloudflare pages in bot fight mode. It's running in some kind of white-label mode making cloudflare non-trivial to recognize, but I still recognize the javascript from the cloudflare challenge page, look at this javascript: - window._cf_chl_opt={cvId: '3',cZone: "www.podchaser.com",cType: 'managed',cRay: '8fef0e7b89c8b509' the `_cf_chl_opt` is a cloudflare challenge page variable name, `cRay` is a cloudflare id, I also recognize the title tag <title>Just a moment...</title> from other cloudflare-protected sites. It's definitely cloudflare. (cloudflare-in-hiding! never seen that before) >what is it 'checking' for ? a quick automated check that you're "probably not a robot" before giving you access to the real website. Stop robots but not humans from accessing the page, is the intention, probably. > the page is actually gzipped - dillo can gunzip but curl can't by itself > > (found out using w3m) it's only gzipped if you give the appropriate request header, eg `Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate` -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-users Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html