Conflict with Gtranslate

[tu dou]

Gtranslate is a translation service, it works like a reverse proxy.
So WP armour often block Gtranslate’s server IP.
Gtranslate doesn’t want to give user their IP range, so we couldn’t add their IP to whitelist.
Even we could, it would whitelist spammer too.

Gtranslate uses X-GT-Viewer-IP for real visitor’s IP address.

Other things worth mention:
1, Only paid Gtranslate works like reverse proxy.
2, Gtranslate works in 3 modes: nl.domain.com/ domain.com/nl or nldomain.com

So you could not simply add a exception by checking whether Gtranslate plugin is activated.

[Dinesh]

Hi Tu Dou,

Are you using Google Translate as a wordpress pluging ? Or is it from Browser extensions ?

Also, is this happening during form submission ? Or just block the whole website ?

Thanks

[tu dou]

Hi,
Dinesh, it’s this one:
wordpress.org/plugins/gtranslate/
gtranslate.io
A translation service.

The spam is from form submission, but after WP Armour blocks Gtranslate’s IP, all languages except default language and cached pages would be blocked.

[Dinesh]

Hi,

I install Gtranslate in my setup and couldn’t replicate the issue. Can you share me when Gtranslate’s IP is blocked ? Becuase, our system records/checks IP when there is form submission. Also, i submitted few forms and comments with different language and there was not issue.

Thanks

[tu dou]

Hi,
When there is spam form submission through translated pages, Gtranslate’s IP would be blocked instead of submitter’s. Because Gtranslate works like a reverse proxy.
The form plugin is Fluent form.

[Dinesh]

Hi,

Does gTranslate has fixed IP ? If so adding the IP in whitelist might help.

Thanks

[tu dou]

Hi,
They are not willing to give out IP range.
And even there is a IP range, whitelist would make all spam bypass through translated pages.
How do you deal with Cloudflare proxyed websites? It’s similar with Gtranslate, just they are using an un-normal header X-GT-Viewer-IP

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