Adblock plugin blocklist disappeared

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ejlviking
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Re: Adblock plugin blocklist disappeared

Post by ejlviking »

Hello,
I have the same issue with the block list disappearing. Not sure how long ago, but a few months sounds right. I have tried the changes with the new link and the "--no-check-certificate" option, but it still fails.

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root@TPLINK:/tmp# wget --no-check-certificate https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
wget: not an http or ftp url: https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
The wget --help options don't even look like they support --no-certificate. So I thought I would try to upgrade the package (busybox) but it says it is already up to date.(1.22.1-3).

I tried ewget, and that works, it downloaded the list of sites. It seems to have even less options, so I don't know if that can be a replacement for the wget commands in the runadblock.sh script. (Saving to file has the windows carriage returns (M) at the end of each line.)

I am quite behind on Gargoyle running version 1.8.1.
And the DNS Adblocking support for Gargoyle is version 20150716-1.0.1

Is there an obvious workaround? Or should I just upgrade.
I have been putting it off I guess.

For now I will just manually update the site list. Maybe a check to see if the remote files exist before blindly deleting the existing list would still keep us somewhat protected. I do understand that diskspace is limited.

Thanks for all the time and effort you have put into this.

Lantis
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Re: Adblock plugin blocklist disappeared

Post by Lantis »

You really should upgrade, but that's your choice.

Your version of wget doesn't support HTTPS, hence why it is failing.
For your workaround, switch it to using ewget.
I believe in the latest versions of the code we switched to ewget anyway :)
http://lantisproject.com/downloads/gargoyle_ispyisail.php for the latest releases
Please be respectful when posting. I do this in my free time on a volunteer basis.

ejlviking
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Joined: Mon Jun 20, 2016 4:59 pm

Re: Adblock plugin blocklist disappeared

Post by ejlviking »

Got it working with ewget.

Thanks again!

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