Opensubtitles.org blocked

[wizzd]

Hi
(Unsure which sub forum to put this in...)

So opensubtitles.org and api.opensubtitles.org are blocked in Denmark.
Looking through a few forums, it seems like OS.org have caved and are redirecting any Danish IPs to a letter from "rettighedsalliancen"... meaning that changing DNS won't fix the issue...

Is there any way to get around this? I would like to avoid using a VPN for everything - is it possible to use a VPN just for the subtitle part - and use the amc still?

https://forum.opensubtitles.org/viewtop ... =1&t=16990
https://torrentfreak.com/opensubtitles- ... st-191217/

[kim]

https://www.opensubtitles.com

https://www.hidemyass-freeproxy.com/

[wizzd]

Thanks Kim - but how can I use this with the amc?

[rednoah]

Well, if you access the internet from outside of Denmark via VPN, then that'll work for sure. If they're just using DNS hijacking to block sites, then using Google DNS or CloudFlare DNS (ideally via HTTPS) will do the trick as well.

[wizzd]

but problem is that it's opensubtitles.org who're redirecting ... it's not just a dns block.
Is there a way to only use vpn for opensubtitles - and not for anything else?

[rednoah]

If you're using a Proxy then I think it's possible to have a Proxy config that sends different requests to different Proxies. Not sure about VPN, if it's possible to only tunnel traffic to specific IPs, I suppose it's possible, but probably more tricky.

[kim]

maybe we can use Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config

Handling Proxy Auto Config (PAC) scripts in Java
https://blog.jayway.com/2012/09/10/hand ... s-in-java/

maybe rednoah can help ?

[rednoah]

FileBot won't be supporting PAC configs. But I'm pretty sure at least on Windows you can set a PAC script for the system proxy settings, which then get inherited by FileBot. Maybe. IDK. Untested.


You may be happy with setting a Proxy just for FileBot. That is certainly possible, via the usual Java system properties:

Code: Select all

export FILEBOT_OPTS="-Dhttps.proxyHost=webcache.example.com -Dhttps.proxyPort=8080"

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/t ... oxies.html