Error Message on Referrer List page

This error indicates that WP was unable to post your blocklist additions back to my server for review before being included in the public list.

WordPress generally has a graceful mechanism to post the data even if cURL isn’t installed on the host server. In this case it appears that cURL is installed and attempted to send the operation. The error means that either your hosting firewall blocked the outbound cURL request or my server was too slow to respond.

Please try adding this to your wp-config.php file and let me know if it solves the problem:
ini_set("default_socket_timeout", 10000);
-you can also attempt to increase the timeout, but don’t go above 30000 for performance reasons.

If that helps it indicates some performance issue in between our two servers and I can investigate more.

I’ve got WordFence Firewall running, I increased the timeout as you suggested and still no go. Do you think whitelisting your server would help? If so, provide url so that I can add it to my whitelists.

If the timeout increase did not help, then the communication is very likely being blocked.

Please try whitelisting the outbound traffic to spamblocker.jacobbaron.net in your firewall and let me know if that helps.

Thanks!

Harley,

I just released a new update (1.4.3) which has a fix for the timeout issue.

As my list has grown, the process of parsing it server-side from each user’s request has begun to take more and more time. I’m now pre-processing some of the data prior to submission to greatly reduce the amount of data cURL needs to transmit and the server needs to crunch.

Would you please download the latest update, and let me know if it remedies the issue for you?

Updated all of my websites to latest version, all are playing nicely with your server now. Thanks for fixing the issue. Your plugin is “Da BOMB!!”