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Hi,
When I try to do Problem 221, the Test Data box is empty. This still happens even when I refresh the page. Can you have a look at this?
Many thanks, JimmyCarlos.
JimmyCarlos, thanks for the report! I see here is an issue - the problem data generator uses 3-rd party site to generate crossword with the code the author (Graeme) had written in C for improved performance. It seems this secondary site added some sequrity measures against requests sent not by human, so the answer is empty.
I'll try to modify data generation to run in our sandbox, which will help (if it works) - but it needs some time.
Thanks for responding Rodion!
Without knowing full details, I don't know if this suggestion would work - but would sending a request to the 3rd party site using the User-Agent and other request headers obtained as a human accessing the site allow you to still access it?
JimmyCarlos, Hi!
Sorry for delay, probably now it may be working - please test. Generation may take some seconds but generally succeeds.
I tried the trick with User-Agent according to your suggestion, thanks, but seemingly the sourceforge server (which was used before) is more cunning :) now the thing was migrated to our sandbox, it just is a bit slower.
Hi, it's working now. Great job!