Apparently I’m a malicious attacker trying to read Tolstoy because cloudflare is blocking me from this page.
"You have an awful lot of media, and I only want to read a single page of text content."
The site admin replied, "5m."
5m? What kind of content-length is that?
That's how long your access token will remain valid. You can receive as many bytes as you like, once you've completed our captcha. But you can only load visible content, and 5m is all you get. Our javascript will follow along as you scroll and load the content progressively.
He solved the captcha and began scrolling. It was good content. He knew he had to reach the end, but he paused here and there to consider the implications. He even scrolled up to reread an early paragraph, thinking this passage would inspire a fine bon mot in some future conversation.
At the three minute mark he started becoming nervous, observing that he was less than halfway down the page. He kept a looser focus on the text and tried to devour it as a flattened procession of scenes and story elements to be interrogated for meaning later.
Four and a half minutes- he began to skim. Now it was just a string of nouns and verbs, representing hardly more to him than its underlying utf-8 byte stream.
He scrolled wildly onto the half-occluded final line of text, but it was too late: the token's time to live had already fallen below the round-trip latency to the server.
Or had it? There was still a request in progress, and it had already reached the server milliseconds before expiration. Status 200: the response arrived successfully!
As the final line was revealed, the page footer approached the view region and triggered a final refresh. The full page of content was invalidated before his eyes reached the end of the line, and now his browser displayed only a 404 message. This final response delivered no content at all-- only a header, 651 bytes long.
> This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.