VPN - PROXY check-block

zeus1971

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I saw a couple of addons to block proxy/VPN access/login in XF.
Some good review/hint to which one is working for you ?
I'm using XF 2.2

Thx guys.
 

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It needs some update, like supporting more services, as of now it depends only on one service, and the result of that service are not accurate, so you might end of blocking users who are not in proxy or vpn.

Would recommend this one over it :- https://enxf.net/resources/j-ipcheck-vpn-proxy-block.2544/

this supports multiple services
 

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Thx @Soft4Win . The point is that I don't want block crawlers, or legitime bots... Is it possible ?
 

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@zeus1971 Both the addon you are using and the addon i mentioned use external services like
Iphub
ipqualityscore
proxycheck.io

so you can visit these sites, and check for the ip address of those bots, and if they are marking the bots as vpn or proxy than its going to be definitely blocked. You can have some whitelisting system in place where you could bypass those ips, or use a service which lets you bypass bots.
 

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@zeus1971 i just realised that the addon you are using is blocking the vpn or proxy access after login, so it is allowing the pages to view as guest, so that way crawlers won't be blocked.
 
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