Server White Listing for Clients

ConfigServer Firewall has been great at keeping unwanted users at bay on my web servers, but it also causes plenty of problems – notably when the SMTP authentication fails multiple times. This is usually caused by an email account trying to send an email and repeatedly using bad credentials to login. After a short period of time, CSF or cPHulk kicks in and blocks all communication with their website.

Managing this is a pain as there is no way (as far as I can tell) to allow clients to white list themselves when this happens. So, I’ve put up a page on a different server that handles requests for white listing.

There are two components here: one for the self-contained request page and a bash script to handle the white listing quickly, away from cPanel.

<?php

/*****************************************************\
*                                                     *
*  REMOTE SERVER CLIENT BLOCK CHECK PAGE              *
*                                                     *
*  Coded by Noah Hearle, Design Extreme               *
*  http://designextreme.com                           *
*                                                     *
*  Created: 2015/05/06                                *
*  Modified: 2015/05/19                               *
*                                                     *
*  Post your comments at:                             *
*  https://blog.nahoo.co.uk/server-white-listing/  *
*                                                     *
\*****************************************************/

session_start();

chdir(__DIR__);

define('EMAIL_SUBJECT', 'IP Whitelist Request');
define('RECIPIENT_NAME', 'Your Name');
define('RECIPIENT_EMAIL', 'ip@yourdomain.com');
define('ADMIN_CODE', 'SomeRandomCode23234');
define('DATA_FILE', '../ip_log.txt');
define('REMOTE_URL', 'http://yourdomain.com/simple/test/page/');
define('REMOTE_IMAGE_URL', 'http://yourdomain.com/test/image.gif');
define('WHITE_LIST_SCRIPT_PATH', '/path/to/script/whitelist_ip.sh');
define('HISTORY_LENGTH', 10);

$ip = getip();
$ignore = (isset($_REQUEST['ignore']) && $_REQUEST['ignore']);
$name = (isset($_POST['name']) && $_POST['name'] != NULL) ? preg_replace('/,/','',$_POST['name']) : NULL;
$email = (isset($_POST['email']) && $_POST['email'] != NULL) ? preg_replace('/,/','',$_POST['email']) : NULL;
$status = (isset($_POST['status']) && $_POST['status'] != NULL) ? preg_replace('/,/','',$_POST['status']) : NULL;
$admin = (isset($_GET[ADMIN_CODE])) ? (bool)$_GET[ADMIN_CODE] : ((isset($_SESSION['ip_admin'])) ? $_SESSION['ip_admin'] : FALSE);
$email_sent = (isset($_SESSION['ip_email_sent']) && $_SESSION['ip_email_sent'] != NULL) ? $_SESSION['ip_email_sent'] : FALSE;

if (!$admin && ((!isset($_SESSION['ip']) || isset($_SESSION['ip']) && $_SESSION['ip'] != $ip) || ($name != NULL && $email != NULL)))
{
    if (!$ignore)
    {
        $fp = fopen(DATA_FILE, 'a');
        fputs($fp, date("Y-m-d H:i").','.$ip.(($name != NULL && $email != NULL) ? ','.$name.','.$email.','.$status : '')."\n");
        fclose($fp);
    }
    
    if (!$email_sent && preg_match('/^\w+([-+.]\w+)*@(\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*)$/i',$email) && checkdnsrr(preg_replace('/[^@]*@([^@]+)$/','$1',$email), 'MX'))
    {
        if ($ignore)
        {
            $email_sent = time();
        }
        else
        {
            $data = array(
                'sender_email' => $email,
                'sender_name' => $name,
                'recipient_email' => RECIPIENT_EMAIL,
                'recipient_name' => RECIPIENT_NAME,
                'subject' => EMAIL_SUBJECT,
                'text' => 'New IP Whitelist request from '.$name.' <'.$email.'> on '.date("r").PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL.'Status: '.$status.PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL.'IP: '.$ip.PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL.'sh '.WHITE_LIST_SCRIPT_PATH.' '.$ip
            );    
            if (email($data))
            {
                $email_sent = time();
            }
        }
    }
}

$_SESSION['ip'] = $ip;
$_SESSION['ip_admin'] = $admin;
$_SESSION['ip_email_sent'] = $email_sent;

if ($admin)
{
    $ip_tail = tail_ip_log(DATA_FILE, HISTORY_LENGTH, FALSE);
}

function getip()
{
    if( isset( $_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"] ) )
    {
        $realip = $_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"];
    }
    elseif( isset( $_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"] ) )
    {
        $realip = $_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"];
    }
    else
    {
        $realip = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
    }
    return $realip;
}

function tail_ip_log($file, $count=10, $repeat=TRUE)
{
    $ret = array();
    $data = file($file);
    
    if (empty($data))
    {
        return $ret;
    }
    
    for ($i = (count($data)-1); $i>0; $i--)
    {
        if (!preg_match('/^([^,]+),([^,]+)(?:,([^,]+),([^,]+)(?:,([^,]+))?)?$/i', $data[$i], $m))
        {
            continue;
        }
        
        $k = (!$repeat) ? str_replace('.', '_', $m[2]) : $i;
        if (!$repeat && array_key_exists($k,$ret))
        {
            continue;
        }
        
        $ret[$k] = array($m[1],$m[2],$m[3],$m[4],$m[5]);
        
        $count--;
        if ($count == 0)
        {
            break;
        }
    }
    return $ret;
}

function email ($data)
{
    $sender_email = (string)$data['sender_email'];
    $sender_name = (string)$data['sender_name'];
    $return_email = (isset($data['return_email'])) ? (string)$data['return_email'] : (string)$data['sender_email'];
    $recipient_email = (string)$data['recipient_email'];
    $recipient_name = (string)$data['recipient_name'];
    $subject = (isset($data['subject']) && $data['subject'] != NULL) ? (string)$data['subject'] : 'No Subject';
    $text = (isset($data['text'])) ? $data['text'] : NULL;
    $html = (isset($data['html'])) ? $data['html'] : nl2br(htmlspecialchars($text));
    
    $sender = $sender_name.' <'.$sender_email.'>';
    $recipient = $recipient_name.' <'.$recipient_email.'>';
    $newline = (preg_match('/win/i',strtolower(php_uname('s')))) ? "\r\n" : "\n";
    $headers = 'From: '.$sender.$newline;
    $headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$sender_email.$newline;
    $headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP/'.phpversion().$newline;

    return mail($recipient, $subject, $text, $headers, '-f '.$return_email);    
}
?><!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">


<!----------------------------------------------------\
|                                                     |
|  REMOTE SERVER CLIENT BLOCK CHECK PAGE              |
|                                                     |
|  Coded by Noah Hearle, Design Extreme               |
|  http://designextreme.com                           |
|                                                     |
|  Created: 2015/05/06                                |
|  Modified: 2015/05/19                               |
|                                                     |
|  Post your comments at:                             |
|  https://blog.nahoo.co.uk/server-white-listing/  |
|                                                     |
\----------------------------------------------------->


<title>Your IP Address is: <?= htmlspecialchars($ip); ?></title>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Slabo+27px&family=Roboto' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body,td,th,input,button { color:#D6D1A3; font-family:Roboto,Calibri,'Trebuchet MS',Arial; font-size:15px; }
html { height:100%; }
body { background:#000e00; background:-moz-linear-gradient(top,#000e00 0%,#404a40 100%); background:-webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0%,#000e00),color-stop(100%,#404a40)); background:-webkit-linear-gradient(top,#000e00 0%,#404a40 100%); background:-o-linear-gradient(top,#000e00 0%,#404a40 100%); background:-ms-linear-gradient(top,#000e00 0%,#404a40 100%); background:rgba(0,0,0,0) linear-gradient(to bottom,#000e00 0%,#404a40 100%) repeat scroll 0 0; filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#000e00',endColorstr='#404a40',GradientType=0); }
h1 { font-family:'Slabo 27px','Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size:60px; font-weight:700; text-shadow:0 4px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.8); margin:40px 0; }
h2 { margin:20px 0; font-size:30px; }
h3 { margin:20px 0; font-size:25px; }
p { line-height:140%; }
#main { background-color:rgba(100,255,100,0.08); border:2px solid #6a856a; border-radius:5px; box-shadow:14px 16px 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.09),-9px -5px 32px rgba(133,233,155,0.19) inset; margin:120px auto 0; max-width:1300px; min-width:360px; padding:30px 20px; text-align:center; width:85%; }
table { width:320px; margin:20px auto; }
table th,table td { text-align:left; padding:6px; }
#admin { width:auto; }
#admin th,#admin td { text-align:left; padding:6px; border-bottom:1px dashed #D6D1A3; }
input { background-color:#eeecc4; border:1px solid #d6d1a3; color:#555f2e; padding:4px 2%; width:96%; }
button { background-color:rgba(100,255,100,0.08); border:2px solid #6a856a; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:14px 16px 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.09),-9px -5px 32px rgba(133,233,155,0.19) inset; color:#eeecc4; font-weight:700; padding:4px 0; width:100%; }
#circle { font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:#433F23; border:4px solid #d6d1a3; border-radius:104px; font-size:200px; font-weight:700; height:200px; line-height:104%; margin:0 auto; padding:0; text-align:center; width:200px; transition:all 2s ease-in-out; }
#circle_frame { height:212px; border:0 none; overflow:hidden; width:212px; text-align:center; }
#circle.allowed { border:4px solid #A8BF27; color:#A8BF27; }
#circle.blocked { border:4px solid #D56567; color:#D56567; }
#circle.unknown { color:#d6d1a3; }
-->
</style>

<script>
<!--

var count = 0;

function remote_server_connection(count, status, img) {
    if (typeof count == 'undefined') {
        count = 0;
    }
    
    if (typeof status == 'undefined') {
        status = 'Unknown';
    }

    
    if (typeof img == 'undefined') {
        img = null;
    }
    
    var http = new XMLHttpRequest(),
        url = '<?= REMOTE_URL; ?>',
        image_url = '<?= REMOTE_IMAGE_URL; ?>';
        
    if (count == 0) {
        img = new Image();
        img.onerror = function () {
            this.src = null;
            return 'Blocked';
        }
        img.src = image_url;
        count++;
    }
    else if (count == 1 && img != null) {
        count++;
        if (img.height > 0) {
            status = 'Allowed';
        }
    }
    else {
        count++;
        if (http.open('HEAD', url, false)) {
            http.send();
            status = (http.status == 200) ? 'Allowed' : 'Blocked';
        }
    }

    if (!document.getElementById('circle')) {
        document.getElementById('circle_container').innerHTML = '<div id="circle"></div>';
    }
    
    if (status == null) {
        status = 'Unknown';
    }

    if (count < 2 && status == 'Unknown') {
        setTimeout(function() { status = remote_server_connection(count, status, img)}, 400);
    }
    else {
        document.getElementById('server_status').value = status;
        document.getElementById('circle').className = status.toLowerCase();
        document.getElementById('circle').innerHTML = ((status == 'Allowed') ? '☑' : ((status == 'Blocked') ? '☒' : '?'));
        if (status == 'Unknown') {
            document.getElementById('circle_container').innerHTML = '<iframe src="<?= REMOTE_URL; ?>" id="circle_frame"></iframe>';
        }
    }

    if (document.getElementById('current_status_message')) {
        switch (status) {
        case 'Allowed':
            document.getElementById('current_status_message').innerHTML = 'Your IP is not blacklisted and you should have no problems connecting to your website and emails.';
            document.getElementById('submission_form').style.opacity = 0.66;
            break;
        case 'Blocked':
            document.getElementById('current_status_message').innerHTML = 'It appears that you&rsquo;re blocked from accessing your website and emails and your IP may be blacklisted. Please send us your IP address here.';
            break;
        default:
            break;
        }
    }
    return status;
}

window.onload = function() {    
    if (document.getElementById('server_status')) {
        remote_server_connection(count);
    }
    else {
        setInterval(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 120000);
    }
}
-->
</script>
</head>

<body>
<div id="main">
<form action="./" method="post" id="form">
<h3>Your IP Address is: </h3>
<h1><?= htmlspecialchars($ip); ?></h1>
<?php if ($admin)
{
?>  <table id="admin">
    <tr>
      <th style="text-align: right;">Date</th>
      <th style="text-align: right;">IP</th>
      <th>Name</th>
      <th>Email</th>
      <th>Status</th>
    </tr>
<?php
    $i = 0;
    foreach ($ip_tail as $a)
    {
        if ($a[0] == NULL)
        {
            continue;
        }
        echo '    <tr'.(($i > 0) ? ' style="opacity: '.(1-$i/HISTORY_LENGTH) : '').';">
      <td style="text-align: right;">'.htmlspecialchars($a[0]).'</td>
      <td style="text-align: right;">'.htmlspecialchars($a[1]).'</td>
      <td>'.((isset($a[2]) && $a[2] != NULL) ? htmlspecialchars($a[2]) : '&mdash;').'</td>
      <td>'.((isset($a[3]) && $a[3] != NULL) ? htmlspecialchars($a[3]) : '&mdash;').'</td>
      <td>'.((isset($a[4]) && $a[4] != NULL) ? htmlspecialchars($a[4]) : '&mdash;').'</td>
    </tr>
';
        $i++;
    }
?>  </table>
<?php
}
else
{
    if (($name != NULL && $email != NULL))
    {
        if (!is_bool($email_sent) && $email_sent == time())
        {
?>
  <p>Your details have been logged and an email notification has been sent.</p>
<?php
        }
        else
        {
?>
  <p>Your details have been logged.</p>
<?php
        }
    }
    else
    {
?>
  <p>Your IP address is a way to identify your internet connection. </p>
  <p id="current_status_message">If you&rsquo;re having problems accessing your website and emails, your IP may be blacklisted. So you may wish to send us your IP address here.</p>
<?php
    }
?>
  <table id="submission_form">
    <tr>
      <td><input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="<?= htmlspecialchars($name); ?>" placeholder="Your name"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><input type="email" name="email" id="email" value="<?= htmlspecialchars($email); ?>" placeholder="Your email"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th><button type="submit" name="send" value="1" id="send">Send Details</button><input type="hidden" id="server_status" name="status" value=""><input type="hidden" id="ignore" name="ignore" value="<?= $ignore; ?>"></th>
    </tr>
  </table>
<?php
}
?>
</form>
<?php
if (!$admin)
{
?>
  <div id="circle_container"></div>
<?php
}
?></div>
</body>
</html>

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<?php

/*****************************************************\

* *

* REMOTE SERVER CLIENT BLOCK CHECK PAGE *

* *

* Coded by Noah Hearle, Design Extreme *

* http://designextreme.com *

* *

* Created: 2015/05/06 *

* Modified: 2015/05/19 *

* *

* Post your comments at: *

* https://blog.nahoo.co.uk/server-white-listing/ *

* *

\*****************************************************/

session_start();

chdir(__DIR__);

define('EMAIL_SUBJECT', 'IP Whitelist Request');

define('RECIPIENT_NAME', 'Your Name');

define('RECIPIENT_EMAIL', 'ip@yourdomain.com');

define('ADMIN_CODE', 'SomeRandomCode23234');

define('DATA_FILE', '../ip_log.txt');

define('REMOTE_URL', 'http://yourdomain.com/simple/test/page/');

define('REMOTE_IMAGE_URL', 'http://yourdomain.com/test/image.gif');

define('WHITE_LIST_SCRIPT_PATH', '/path/to/script/whitelist_ip.sh');

define('HISTORY_LENGTH', 10);

$ip = getip();

$ignore = (isset($_REQUEST['ignore']) && $_REQUEST['ignore']);

$name = (isset($_POST['name']) && $_POST['name'] != NULL) ? preg_replace('/,/','',$_POST['name']) : NULL;

$email = (isset($_POST['email']) && $_POST['email'] != NULL) ? preg_replace('/,/','',$_POST['email']) : NULL;

$status = (isset($_POST['status']) && $_POST['status'] != NULL) ? preg_replace('/,/','',$_POST['status']) : NULL;

$admin = (isset($_GET[ADMIN_CODE])) ? (bool)$_GET[ADMIN_CODE] : ((isset($_SESSION['ip_admin'])) ? $_SESSION['ip_admin'] : FALSE);

$email_sent = (isset($_SESSION['ip_email_sent']) && $_SESSION['ip_email_sent'] != NULL) ? $_SESSION['ip_email_sent'] : FALSE;

if (!$admin && ((!isset($_SESSION['ip']) || isset($_SESSION['ip']) && $_SESSION['ip'] != $ip) || ($name != NULL && $email != NULL)))

{

if (!$ignore)

{

$fp = fopen(DATA_FILE, 'a');

fputs($fp, date("Y-m-d H:i").','.$ip.(($name != NULL && $email != NULL) ? ','.$name.','.$email.','.$status : '')."\n");

fclose($fp);

}

if (!$email_sent && preg_match('/^\w+([-+.]\w+)*@(\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*)$/i',$email) && checkdnsrr(preg_replace('/[^@]*@([^@]+)$/','$1',$email), 'MX'))

{

if ($ignore)

{

$email_sent = time();

}

else

{

$data = array(

'sender_email' => $email,

'sender_name' => $name,

'recipient_email' => RECIPIENT_EMAIL,

'recipient_name' => RECIPIENT_NAME,

'subject' => EMAIL_SUBJECT,

'text' => 'New IP Whitelist request from '.$name.' <'.$email.'> on '.date("r").PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL.'Status: '.$status.PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL.'IP: '.$ip.PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL.'sh '.WHITE_LIST_SCRIPT_PATH.' '.$ip

);

if (email($data))

{

$email_sent = time();

}

$_SESSION['ip'] = $ip;

$_SESSION['ip_admin'] = $admin;

$_SESSION['ip_email_sent'] = $email_sent;

if ($admin)

{

$ip_tail = tail_ip_log(DATA_FILE, HISTORY_LENGTH, FALSE);

}

function getip()

{

if( isset( $_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"] ) )

{

$realip = $_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"];

}

elseif( isset( $_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"] ) )

{

$realip = $_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"];

}

else

{

$realip = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];

}

return $realip;

}

function tail_ip_log($file, $count=10, $repeat=TRUE)

{

$ret = array();

$data = file($file);

if (empty($data))

{

return $ret;

}

for ($i = (count($data)-1); $i>0; $i--)

{

if (!preg_match('/^([^,]+),([^,]+)(?:,([^,]+),([^,]+)(?:,([^,]+))?)?$/i', $data[$i], $m))

{

continue;

}

$k = (!$repeat) ? str_replace('.', '_', $m[2]) : $i;

if (!$repeat && array_key_exists($k,$ret))

{

continue;

}

$ret[$k] = array($m[1],$m[2],$m[3],$m[4],$m[5]);

$count--;

if ($count == 0)

{

break;

}

return $ret;

}

function email ($data)

{

$sender_email = (string)$data['sender_email'];

$sender_name = (string)$data['sender_name'];

$return_email = (isset($data['return_email'])) ? (string)$data['return_email'] : (string)$data['sender_email'];

$recipient_email = (string)$data['recipient_email'];

$recipient_name = (string)$data['recipient_name'];

$subject = (isset($data['subject']) && $data['subject'] != NULL) ? (string)$data['subject'] : 'No Subject';

$text = (isset($data['text'])) ? $data['text'] : NULL;

$html = (isset($data['html'])) ? $data['html'] : nl2br(htmlspecialchars($text));

$sender = $sender_name.' <'.$sender_email.'>';

$recipient = $recipient_name.' <'.$recipient_email.'>';

$newline = (preg_match('/win/i',strtolower(php_uname('s')))) ? "\r\n" : "\n";

$headers = 'From: '.$sender.$newline;

$headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$sender_email.$newline;

$headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP/'.phpversion().$newline;

return mail($recipient, $subject, $text, $headers, '-f '.$return_email);

}

?><!doctype html>

<html>

<head>

<!----------------------------------------------------\

| |

| REMOTE SERVER CLIENT BLOCK CHECK PAGE |

| |

| Coded by Noah Hearle, Design Extreme |

| http://designextreme.com |

| |

| Created: 2015/05/06 |

| Modified: 2015/05/19 |

| |

| Post your comments at: |

| https://blog.nahoo.co.uk/server-white-listing/ |

| |

\----------------------------------------------------->

<title>Your IP Address is: <?= htmlspecialchars($ip); ?></title>

<!--

body,td,th,input,button { color:#D6D1A3; font-family:Roboto,Calibri,'Trebuchet MS',Arial; font-size:15px; }

html { height:100%; }

body { background:#000e00; background:-moz-linear-gradient(top,#000e00 0%,#404a40 100%); background:-webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0%,#000e00),color-stop(100%,#404a40)); background:-webkit-linear-gradient(top,#000e00 0%,#404a40 100%); background:-o-linear-gradient(top,#000e00 0%,#404a40 100%); background:-ms-linear-gradient(top,#000e00 0%,#404a40 100%); background:rgba(0,0,0,0) linear-gradient(to bottom,#000e00 0%,#404a40 100%) repeat scroll 0 0; filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#000e00',endColorstr='#404a40',GradientType=0); }

h1 { font-family:'Slabo 27px','Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size:60px; font-weight:700; text-shadow:0 4px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.8); margin:40px 0; }

h2 { margin:20px 0; font-size:30px; }

h3 { margin:20px 0; font-size:25px; }

p { line-height:140%; }

#main { background-color:rgba(100,255,100,0.08); border:2px solid #6a856a; border-radius:5px; box-shadow:14px 16px 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.09),-9px -5px 32px rgba(133,233,155,0.19) inset; margin:120px auto 0; max-width:1300px; min-width:360px; padding:30px 20px; text-align:center; width:85%; }

table { width:320px; margin:20px auto; }

table th,table td { text-align:left; padding:6px; }

#admin { width:auto; }

#admin th,#admin td { text-align:left; padding:6px; border-bottom:1px dashed #D6D1A3; }

input { background-color:#eeecc4; border:1px solid #d6d1a3; color:#555f2e; padding:4px 2%; width:96%; }

button { background-color:rgba(100,255,100,0.08); border:2px solid #6a856a; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:14px 16px 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.09),-9px -5px 32px rgba(133,233,155,0.19) inset; color:#eeecc4; font-weight:700; padding:4px 0; width:100%; }

#circle { font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:#433F23; border:4px solid #d6d1a3; border-radius:104px; font-size:200px; font-weight:700; height:200px; line-height:104%; margin:0 auto; padding:0; text-align:center; width:200px; transition:all 2s ease-in-out; }

#circle_frame { height:212px; border:0 none; overflow:hidden; width:212px; text-align:center; }

#circle.allowed { border:4px solid #A8BF27; color:#A8BF27; }

#circle.blocked { border:4px solid #D56567; color:#D56567; }

#circle.unknown { color:#d6d1a3; }

-->

</style>

<!--

var count = 0;

function remote_server_connection(count, status, img) {

if (typeof count == 'undefined') {

count = 0;

}

if (typeof status == 'undefined') {

status = 'Unknown';

}

if (typeof img == 'undefined') {

img = null;

}

var http = new XMLHttpRequest(),

url = '<?= REMOTE_URL; ?>',

image_url = '<?= REMOTE_IMAGE_URL; ?>';

if (count == 0) {

img = new Image();

img.onerror = function () {

this.src = null;

return 'Blocked';

}

img.src = image_url;

count++;

}

else if (count == 1 && img != null) {

count++;

if (img.height > 0) {

status = 'Allowed';

}

else {

count++;

if (http.open('HEAD', url, false)) {

http.send();

status = (http.status == 200) ? 'Allowed' : 'Blocked';

}

if (!document.getElementById('circle')) {

document.getElementById('circle_container').innerHTML = '<div id="circle"></div>';

}

if (status == null) {

status = 'Unknown';

}

if (count < 2 && status == 'Unknown') {

setTimeout(function() { status = remote_server_connection(count, status, img)}, 400);

}

else {

document.getElementById('server_status').value = status;

document.getElementById('circle').className = status.toLowerCase();

document.getElementById('circle').innerHTML = ((status == 'Allowed') ? '☑' : ((status == 'Blocked') ? '☒' : '?'));

if (status == 'Unknown') {

document.getElementById('circle_container').innerHTML = '<iframe src="<?= REMOTE_URL; ?>" id="circle_frame"></iframe>';

}

if (document.getElementById('current_status_message')) {

switch (status) {

case 'Allowed':

document.getElementById('current_status_message').innerHTML = 'Your IP is not blacklisted and you should have no problems connecting to your website and emails.';

document.getElementById('submission_form').style.opacity = 0.66;

break;

case 'Blocked':

document.getElementById('current_status_message').innerHTML = 'It appears that you’re blocked from accessing your website and emails and your IP may be blacklisted. Please send us your IP address here.';

break;

default:

break;

}

return status;

}

window.onload = function() {

if (document.getElementById('server_status')) {

remote_server_connection(count);

}

else {

setInterval(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 120000);

}

-->

</script>

</head>

<body>

<h3>Your IP Address is: </h3>

<?php if ($admin)

{

?> <table id="admin">

<tr>

<th>Email</th>

<th>Status</th>

</tr>

<?php

$i = 0;

foreach ($ip_tail as $a)

{

if ($a[0] == NULL)

{

continue;

}

echo ' <tr'.(($i > 0) ? ' style="opacity: '.(1-$i/HISTORY_LENGTH) : '').';">

<td style="text-align: right;">'.htmlspecialchars($a[0]).'</td>

<td style="text-align: right;">'.htmlspecialchars($a[1]).'</td>

<td>'.((isset($a[2]) && $a[2] != NULL) ? htmlspecialchars($a[2]) : '—').'</td>

<td>'.((isset($a[3]) && $a[3] != NULL) ? htmlspecialchars($a[3]) : '—').'</td>

<td>'.((isset($a[4]) && $a[4] != NULL) ? htmlspecialchars($a[4]) : '—').'</td>

</tr>

$i++;

}

?> </table>

<?php

}

else

{

if (($name != NULL && $email != NULL))

{

if (!is_bool($email_sent) && $email_sent == time())

{

<p>Your details have been logged and an email notification has been sent.</p>

<?php

}

else

{

<p>Your details have been logged.</p>

<?php

}

else

{

<p>Your IP address is a way to identify your internet connection. </p>

<p id="current_status_message">If you’re having problems accessing your website and emails, your IP may be blacklisted. So you may wish to send us your IP address here.</p>

<?php

}

<tr>

<td><input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="<?= htmlspecialchars($name); ?>" placeholder="Your name"></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><input type="email" name="email" id="email" value="<?= htmlspecialchars($email); ?>" placeholder="Your email"></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<th><button type="submit" name="send" value="1" id="send">Send Details</button><input type="hidden" id="server_status" name="status" value=""><input type="hidden" id="ignore" name="ignore" value="<?= $ignore; ?>"></th>

</tr>

</table>

<?php

}

</form>

<?php

if (!$admin)

{

<?php

}

?></div>

</body>

</html>

You will need to edit this file and create a log file, preferably above web root, to handle the IP requests. Storing this in a table is an alternative.

Place this page on a different server to your own. Access the logs by adding adding your random code = 1 to the URL, e.g. ?soMeRanD0mCod3234=1. You can contact me if you’re interested in a free sub domain account.

This is the bash script that white lists the IP if there is a genuine request:

I have mine running at: ip.designextreme.com and there is a simple page on the test server.

2 thoughts on “Server White Listing for Clients”

Noah says:
27 May, 2015 at 04:40
I corrected the JavaScript to cycle through a few different attempts to connect using the client browser. It now works consistently with Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Noah says:
17 May, 2018 at 11:04
Recently I have automated some of the white listing processes. If you show you interest here, I will reply individually to you and if there is suitable interest, I’ll update this post with my improvements.

2 thoughts on “Server White Listing for Clients”

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