[E] Cannot save large trials anymore

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[E] Cannot save large trials anymore

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User Agent String: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0
Link: https://aaonline.fr/editor.php?trial_id=141946 (as an example)
What happened?: When saving in the editor, I get an error saying:
Failed to save for an unknown reason. Please retry.
If the problem persists, please report this bug in the forums.
When trying to save via save.php, I get a "413 Request Entity Too Large" error.
What did you expect to happen?:
I expect it to save. All of the ones I've tried and had trouble with are cases I've saved before.
Can you reproduce the problem?:
Currently yes, it happens 100% of the time I've tried.
What did you do before the problem showed up?:
Nothing specific. Saving a small trial still works, but I don't know the exact criteria for what is no longer allowed. The ones I've tried have been over 2000 frames each.

My suspicion is that this may be a change in server settings meant to combat the bots that have been plaguing the site as of late, which, while effective, as the site is up, seems to have backfired in this specific circumstance.
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Re: [E] Cannot save large trials anymore

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It's indeed probably a side effect of an infrastructure change I did last week to try to fight against the AI scraping bots that are spamming this site with requests and bringing the server to a crawl...

I just changed the setup again, let us know if it solves your issue.
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Re: [E] Cannot save large trials anymore

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I can confirm I was able to save now, thank you!
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Re: [E] Cannot save large trials anymore

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That's good news, thanks for the confirmation !

Now, let's hope that my latest attempt to detect and throttle bad bots will actually work in the long term...
The setup I did tonight is supposed to detect traffic surges coming from a specific subnet (because the AI crawlers usually run swarms of instances, with different IPs, but part of a same subnet), and force each IP within such a subnet to go through a captcha before continuing to browse the site. That's the best solution I could find so far to avoid ruining the experience of actual users with captchas every few minutes like some other sites do...

I guess we'll see if the site runs a bit better now, and if actual people start being affected by this !
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