Eurobilltracker-site Feedback.

[avij]

Maybe it was on an other phpBB-forum

Probably an older version of phpBB. Ours uses the newest version.

[tigerpranke]

In the citymanager, assignment rules can be deleted, but I can't add new ones:

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After confirming, I get a blank page without sourcecode.

[Montgomery Burns]

Something I chanced upon while looking at the profile for Guinea-Bissau:

G-B Missing pull-down menus

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You could be forgiven for thinking "well, that happens because it's a country with only one hit", but that's not correct. Here's Mongolia's hit-list as an example.

[ErGo]

You could be forgiven for thinking "well, that happens because it's a country with only one hit", but that's not correct. Here's Mongolia's hit-list as an example.

Mongolia has additionally 2 moderated hits.
But Bangladesh has really only 1 hit, and there are the select fields! So it's really a bug

[Montgomery Burns]

^ Indeed. I went through every single country with a recorded hit in order to check if this post needed updating, and I'm pretty sure Guinea-Bissau is the only page where it's happening.

[avij]

I renewed EBT's TLS certificate this morning (the certificate needed for HTTPS support) and apparently something went wrong with the related OCSP stapling procedure. I didn't notice this at first as EBT worked just fine with Chrome, but apparently some other browsers (notably Firefox) had problems accessing EBT this morning.

I've removed the OCSP stapling option for now. Now having a closer look at what actually went wrong ...

[Ernesto_due]

I renewed EBT's TLS certificate this morning (the certificate needed for HTTPS support) and apparently something went wrong with the related OCSP stapling procedure. I didn't notice this at first as EBT worked just fine with Chrome, but apparently some other browsers (notably Firefox) had problems accessing EBT this morning.

I've removed the OCSP stapling option for now. Now having a closer look at what actually went wrong ...

Thank you, Avij !

Also the app EBT.art works again, that's important for me ...

Thx, well done! - Ernesto

[avij]

More details about today's outage for the technically minded.

If you read the Wikipedia article above, you learned that the OCSP response files need to be regenerated periodically. I don't know if the exact validity period is included in some specification, but the OCSP responses I have access to seem to be valid for 7 days. There is a script on our web server that renews the OCSP response files every three days, at 04:40 in the morning. Today was one of those days.

Let's Encrypt TLS certificates are valid for three months. Ours for eurobilltracker.com was expiring soon so I renewed it this morning. After I got the certificate I ran the script to regenerate the OCSP response file and restarted the web server process. As EBT loaded fine in Chrome (the browser I usually use) everything seemed to be OK.

Then later on I got a message saying that there's a problem with Firefox and some others. I disabled OCSP in the web server and the problem went away. Later on I found out that the OCSP regeneration script has a feature which exits the script silently if the OCSP responses were regenerated less than 25 hours ago. As this was the case today, the OCSP response files were left untouched. Some browsers were obviously confused when the certificate and the OCSP response no longer matched.

I now modified the script so that it will stop the script only if the OCSP data was regenerated less than 25 hours ago AND the certificate is older than the OCSP response file. OCSP is now re-enabled on the web server.

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edit: The change I made was also accepted upstream.

[avij]

If EBT or the forum has appeared sluggish or some pages have failed to load, particularly this week, the blame goes to China. There was some fairly aggressive bot from Alibaba Cloud (from around 100 different IP addresses) crawling EBT's pages. For the last hour, that bot accounted for 90% of all web requests to EBT. That rapid request rate exceeded some connection count limits, which I've now increased. I've also blocked those IP address ranges.

Somewhat relatedly, various server statistics are available.

[tigerpranke]

More details about today's outage for the technically minded.
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Thanks for the insight, very interesting!

[avij]

I just updated the web server software lighttpd from version 1.4.67 to 1.4.74. Hopefully nothing broke.

[aloxe]

Ahoj a question related to API. My communes de France app is using eurobilltracker APIs and since a few days this is not possible to use the login API from the app installed under https://ebt.fr.eu.org/ users get a response 502.

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I still can make ok calls from a local deployment of the app, but it is sending it from localhost that will not block it.

Did you recently change the rules for the API responses ? did you ban 76.76.21.9 or did you do nothing and I should look elsewhere?

[Crazy Bob]

In July 2022, I found what appears to be a "missing word" on the EBT site. Assuming it had to do with the site's Dutch translation, I reported it in the relevant topic (viewtopic.php?t=55558&start=15) in the Dutch forum. However, since then, nothing has changed, so maybe it is time to report it here.

Anyways, in Dutch, if you visit (for example) the Bundesland profile of Salzburg, Austria, you will see

Salzburg is een in Oostenrijk. Het bestaat uit 6 Bezirke, 119 Gemeentes en 289 Steden.

In English, the text is

Salzburg is a Bundesland in Austria. It consists of 6 Bezirke, 119 Municipalities and 289 Cities.

The word "Bundesland" (or even "deelstaat", should we choose to translate it in Dutch) seems to be missing in the Dutch translation ("Salzburg is een Bundesland in Oostenrijk" would make more sense). Is it possible to fix this?

(it appears that this omission also occurs in the website's Lithuanian and Croatian versions; at least, I don't see anything resembling "Bundesland" there either)

Any updates on this bug / omission?

[tigerpranke]

In July 2022, I found what appears to be a "missing word" on the EBT site. Assuming it had to do with the site's Dutch translation, I reported it in the relevant topic (viewtopic.php?t=55558&start=15) in the Dutch forum. However, since then, nothing has changed, so maybe it is time to report it here.

Anyways, in Dutch, if you visit (for example) the Bundesland profile of Salzburg, Austria, you will see

Salzburg is een in Oostenrijk. Het bestaat uit 6 Bezirke, 119 Gemeentes en 289 Steden.

In English, the text is

Salzburg is a Bundesland in Austria. It consists of 6 Bezirke, 119 Municipalities and 289 Cities.

The word "Bundesland" (or even "deelstaat", should we choose to translate it in Dutch) seems to be missing in the Dutch translation ("Salzburg is een Bundesland in Oostenrijk" would make more sense). Is it possible to fix this?

(it appears that this omission also occurs in the website's Lithuanian and Croatian versions; at least, I don't see anything resembling "Bundesland" there either)

Any updates on this bug / omission?

Well, in the city manager tool the list of translated words was not complete in most languages. I copied it from the german profile to the autrian one, but some languages need translation, still.

[aloxe]

Well, in the city manager tool the list of translated words was not complete in most languages. I copied it from the german profile to the autrian one, but some languages need translation, still.

how can we get involved?