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Re: why can't you send HTTP requests to roblox.com?

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AggressiveCatch is not online. AggressiveCatch
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25 Jul 2016 10:40 AM
is there a reason for this? and does anyone have/know a proxy i could use instead?
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Tynezz is not online. Tynezz
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25 Jul 2016 10:41 AM
i'm guessing in-game botting
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AggressiveCatch is not online. AggressiveCatch
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25 Jul 2016 10:43 AM
but requests are throttled and you can bot from an external website anyway
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Kodran is not online. Kodran
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25 Jul 2016 10:44 AM
it makes it more of a hassle if you want to
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AggressiveCatch is not online. AggressiveCatch
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25 Jul 2016 10:46 AM
that's dumb because they allow you to bot any other website if you want but not their own

anyway, anyone have a proxy? at least for api.roblox.com?
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JarodOfOrbiter is not online. JarodOfOrbiter
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25 Jul 2016 10:49 AM
"anyway, anyone have a proxy?"
Loads of people, but Roblox keeps blacklisting the proxies they use.


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BothAngles is not online. BothAngles
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25 Jul 2016 10:51 AM
Because of terrible scripters that would DDoS the site
Now if only roblox would prevent terrible scripters from using FilteringEnabled
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AggressiveCatch is not online. AggressiveCatch
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25 Jul 2016 10:52 AM
"Loads of people, but Roblox keeps blacklisting the proxies they use."

then what the hell is the point of api.roblox.com ???
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Dawntine is not online. Dawntine
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25 Jul 2016 10:54 AM
I can run it off my ROBLOX web hosting if you need it (unlimited bandwith) but yeah all the proxies get banned.


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gskw is not online. gskw
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25 Jul 2016 11:09 AM
What is even the point of banning proxies? If some c9-hosted proxy server can crash their servers, blacklisting it on HttpService won't do anything.
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AggressiveCatch is not online. AggressiveCatch
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25 Jul 2016 11:11 AM
what is even the point of api.roblox.com if you can't even use it from your game?
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JarodOfOrbiter is not online. JarodOfOrbiter
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25 Jul 2016 11:11 AM
Because R+ wouldn't work otherwise.


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Dawntine is not online. Dawntine
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25 Jul 2016 11:12 AM
There is really no point...at all.

Guys, you're trying to find *logic* in this, and that's the problem. Stop thinking logically. Think corporately.


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AggressiveCatch is not online. AggressiveCatch
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25 Jul 2016 11:13 AM
so api.roblox.com is only to be used externally and not for in-game?

that's dumb
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Dawntine is not online. Dawntine
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25 Jul 2016 11:15 AM
They don't care if you're doing it for individual projects, they only seem to care if you're running open ROBLOX proxying services...for some reason. It's all very arbitrary.


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IvanL2 is not online. IvanL2
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25 Jul 2016 11:19 AM
Because you can access their content from rbxasset:// or use :LoadAsset() to get an asset that is either yous or ROBLOX's. They probably blocked it as otherwise there might be a flaw where people can access other people's accounts.
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Tynezz is not online. Tynezz
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25 Jul 2016 11:20 AM
@Ivan, no
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JarodOfOrbiter is not online. JarodOfOrbiter
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25 Jul 2016 11:21 AM
I've heard a lot of rumors about why it is, mostly "To prevent exploits caused by directly accessing it", to "That would cause problems with their servers, trying to get their servers to send data to themselves."

Even if either of those made sense, it still wouldn't explain why they ban external websites from using api.roblox.com just because they are used as proxies.


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AggressiveCatch is not online. AggressiveCatch
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25 Jul 2016 11:54 AM
i really don't understand why api.roblox.com is documented in the wiki but you can't even use it for a game on ROBLOX

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Kodran is not online. Kodran
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25 Jul 2016 11:56 AM
The wiki page on it was an afterthought really, see https://forum.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=90532907

Admittedly there are few uses for them.
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AggressiveCatch is not online. AggressiveCatch
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25 Jul 2016 11:58 AM
but only the methods are useful because all of the links (apart from the image links) can't be used with HttpService

there really is very little point to httpservice if ROBLOX bans proxies that access roblox.com and api.roblox.com

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Kodran is not online. Kodran
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25 Jul 2016 12:01 PM
HttpService is awesome. accessing roblox.com is far from the only thing it's useful for. You can make a whole legitimate stock market sim. And with custom headers there are even more possibilities like ozzypig's GameAnalytics.com thing.
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gskw is not online. gskw
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25 Jul 2016 01:29 PM
I set up a proxy for this.

HttpService:GetAsync("https://valkyrie.crescentcode.net/rproxy/api/marketplace/productinfo?assetId=1818")

Replace "api" with any subdomain of roblox.com. Use "www" to access the main site.

Replace "marketplace/productinfo?assetId=1818" with the path of the URL. "docs" will access api.roblox.com/docs
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Skellobit is not online. Skellobit
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25 Jul 2016 01:32 PM
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