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Standard User MHC
(sensei) Sun 11-Sep-16 12:22:38
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Re: BT DSL Address checker not working


[re: adslmax] [link to this post] 		 
Just keep out of it.


And where is the proof that it is a BT issue? You have none



You think you are always so perfect ... and whinge and whine when you lose 1 bit per second from your speed.


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taurus excreta cerebrum vincit

Edited by MHC (Sun 11-Sep-16 12:24:38)
Standard User adslmax
(knowledge is power) Sun 11-Sep-16 12:23:59
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Re: BT DSL Address checker not working


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I think BTW are fed up with me kept checking it every hour! LOL
Standard User deleted
(deleted) Sun 11-Sep-16 13:00:46
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Re: BT DSL Address checker not working


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Looks like that 404 has been hard-coded and they're now using some Javascript to enforce the http_referer.


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Standard User RobertoS
(elder) Sun 11-Sep-16 13:23:57
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Re: BT DSL Address checker not working


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For a while I found I had to use http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.Addres... rather than without the "output", but that also now gives 404.

At least when you do get to it the entry of just the postcode still gets you the address list.

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Standard User Oliver341
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Sun 11-Sep-16 13:26:26
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Re: BT DSL Address checker not working


[re: MHC] [link to this post] 		 
In reply to a post by MHC:
www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.address is what appears in the address bar ... but if I cut and paste from here I get 404 too! Something odd happening somewhere,

That page requires the HTTP POST method, the HTTP GET method returns 404. Pasting the address into the address bar makes it an HTTP GET.

Oliver.
Standard User cymru123
(regular) Sun 11-Sep-16 16:45:48
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Re: BT DSL Address checker not working


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Using the following also still works for address (though using the telephone number parameter input as a get response no longer works)

..../adsl/ADSLChecker.AddressOutput?Buildingname=<building name>&Postcode=<postcode>
Standard User RobertoS
(elder) Sun 11-Sep-16 17:26:19
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Re: BT DSL Address checker not working


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It's still been changed. It worked before, with the "Output" on the end as I posted.

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Standard User PaulKirby
(fountain of knowledge) Sun 11-Sep-16 19:14:17
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Re: BT DSL Address checker not working


[re: MHC] [link to this post] 		 
I think BTW have updated the checker to do more checks so that its harder to link into their checker.

You cannot directly go to the following pages:
http://dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.telephone
or
http://dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.address

You have to go via http://dslchecker.bt.com/

That works for me.

*** update ***
Yep, it seems that BTW have change the checker to be more strict of how the requests are made.
Before your could just use GET Requests all over the place so a single line can do the actual check, that now requires a POST request.

My App still works as I was always using the correct way of requesting, however I don't think the single line linking of a check will work now.

Its a shame tongue

Paul

Edited by PaulKirby (Sun 11-Sep-16 19:20:42)
Standard User PaulKirby
(fountain of knowledge) Sun 11-Sep-16 19:23:56
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Re: BT DSL Address checker not working


[re: Oliver341] [link to this post] 		 
In reply to a post by Oliver341:
In reply to a post by MHC:
www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.address is what appears in the address bar ... but if I cut and paste from here I get 404 too! Something odd happening somewhere,

That page requires the HTTP POST method, the HTTP GET method returns 404. Pasting the address into the address bar makes it an HTTP GET.
Agreed

It was due to they were using REQUEST which returns submitted GET and POST information which is lazy and bad.
It seems that they have corrected that mistake by using POST requests where it should.

Paul
Standard User MHC
(sensei) Sun 11-Sep-16 20:26:07
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Re: BT DSL Address checker not working


[re: PaulKirby] [link to this post] 		 
I did have a gut feel that there was something going on in the background. I did hear though a "grapevine" that at times it was being hammered by automated requests from specific parties.


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taurus excreta cerebrum vincit
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