Request to unblock access to certain web sites

belltown

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Recently, X10 has blocked access via curl to most external web sites. I understand that there may have been security issues that prompted this change. However, there are many sites out there that provide legitimate services over the web. My web site uses data from other sources to provide location-aware services such as maps, directions, and business information to mobile BlackBerry users. Without access to these other services the site is virtually useless. I have already moved my site to another free host that has no such restrictions. I would prefer to move back to X10, however.

I request that you allow access to the following sites:

www.runwayfinder.com
www.mapquestapi.com
local.yahooapis.com
api.bing.net
api.yelp.com

These sites are all used for legitimate purposes, not for spamming. Most of them provide REST APIs that require an authorized developer key in order to gain access, and limit the number of accesses on a per-key basis.

Thanks.
 

Corey

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Please provide us the IP ranges to the APIs.
 

Smith6612

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Please provide us the IP ranges to the APIs.

The IPs I'm getting for each of the sites he's posted up are the following (they should be the correct addresses):

Runwayfinder.com:
72.14.183.86

mapquestapi.com:
207.200.74.38
64.12.79.57
205.188.100.58

local.yahooapis.com/search.yahooapis.com
I suggest doing an IP lookup on this domain via the server. Yahoo uses a CDN more than likely for this address.

98.137.223.105

api.bing.net:
Bing uses Akamai's CDN/Servers for hosting. I would perform an IP Lookup for this address on the server.

184.84.247.33
184.84.247.16

api.yelp.com
63.251.52.146
64.147.162.146
 

belltown

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The IP addresses returned by a domain name lookup do seem to vary for the last 3 sites. These are some of the results I got:

www.runwayfinder.com: 72.14.183.86
www.mapquestapi.com: 205.188.201.172
local.yahooapis.com: 67.195.7.97 or 98.137.223.105
api.bing.net: 92.122.126.232 or 64.208.126.51
api.yelp.com: 64.147.162.146 or 63.251.52.146
 

Smith6612

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:confused::confused:

mmmm

how to solve this problem ?

Are you having the same problem too? If you're using another piece of software or need other sites unblocked, make a thread so that we can take care of it for you.
 

belltown

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Everything seems to be working again. Thanks for implementing the changes.
 
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