[Everquest] Itemtooltip stopped working

ZAM uses Cloudflare, which currently blocks the Item-Requests, therefore the Tooltips are not working.

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Thanks for your answer! You got any info when they will allow it again? if ever?

No, I don't have any information about this.

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I also tried to do upload and copy the EQ icon to that directory.

Change the file ending to "jpg".

Yes, you can restore the itt cache from a file Backup, if you have one.

I am the developer for the Allakhazam site, I am looking into the item tooltip issue.

Thanks. You can use the following information for debugging:

Error 1020
Ray ID: 600122a7a87bc303 • 2020-12-11 18:05:43 UTC
Access denied

It looks like this is being blocked at the browser. I tested this on a older installation of eqdkp plus within Google Chrome.

In the dev console of chrome it shows as,

Cross-Origin Read Blocking (CORB) blocked cross-origin response <URL> with MIME type text/html. See <URL> for more details.

Cross-Origin Read Blocking (CORB) blocked cross-origin response https://everquest.allakhazam.com/pgfx/.png with MIME type text/html. See https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5629709824032768 for more details.

When I look at apache logs I see this for a request,

{ "@timestamp":"2020-12-11T20:31:43+0000", "process":"28950", "filename":"404.pl", "remoteIP":"myiphere", "host":"akz-app", "request":"/cgi-bin/404.pl", "query":"", "method":"GET", "status":"200", "userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36", "referer":"https://mysite.com/" }

We put in an exception on the firewall for the browser agent EQdkp Plus, but the above doesn't send in a request via that agent.

Normally a site owner can just put in this tag some where in the head or body of their site to get the tooltips to work.

<script src="//zam.zamimg.com/j/tooltips.js?c"></script>

This works on non eqdkp plus sites. Can they bypass what is currently being used to pull in tooltips and use the above script instead?

The Browser Requests are not the Problem here (they work fine), but the requests using our Urlfetcher are blocked. Also, direct curl requests on the command line are blcoked. I have tested several installations and havent been able to find a pattern when they are blocked by cloudflare. The error 1020 of cloudflare indicates that a firewall rule has been violated. You can use my RayID to check what happened.

User can add the Javascript to the Itemtooltip-Config, but thats not the preferred way.

Hello Vanrau. We still don't have itemtooltips showing up correctly, was this ever fixed on the Zam side?

Thank you!

I have been trying to figure this out..

Where exactly can I place the:

<script src="//zam.zamimg.com/j/tooltips.js?c"></script>

in the:

Itemtooltip-Config ?

Tried in the /templates/mytemplate/index.tpl (both in the head and body)

Obviously didn't work

Thanks for any pointers

Settings > Itemtooltips > Custom Itemtooltips

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Settings > Itemtooltips > Custom Itemtooltips

Thanks a lot.

added

<script src="//zam.zamimg.com/j/tooltips.js?c"></script>

But the tooltips are still not showing

I also tried changing the "Item-Link For the Tooltips" to match several different ways

<a href="https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item={ITEMID}" {ITEMLINK}> {ITEMNAME}</a>

Still no luck

Just by adding the JS, the Tooltips won't work. This is, because the JS Tooltips search for the item links. Therefore, the links for the Items have to be rewritten.

As the link of a item is normally https://eq2.zam.com/db/item.html?eq2item=000f72862b226abc9a4ac392dc661310, you have to rewrite the itemlink accordingly.

<a href="https://eq2.zam.com/db/item.html?eq2item={ITEMID}" {ITEMLINK}>{ITEMNAME}</a>

(Untested)

Thanks a lot GodMode - I really appreciate your effort to help me with the site

I have tried a lot of ways to make the href work - but it seems like the variables aren't being sent to the actual lookup. (the {ITEMID} etc.

It ends up looking like this:

In the gui I have this:

(also used: <script src="//zam.zamimg.com/j/tooltips.js?c"></script> - same result)

Result:
The site shows the correct item name of the item in text.
links to :

Site is running

Installed version

2.2.27 - not sure if that is an issue

Then you mabye have not added an Game-Itemid to the items.

Thanks again for your time GodMod

Sorry for being...slow.

Item were working "out of the box" then allakhazam changed host to cloudflare and stuff didn't work.

Do I need to add some kind of wrapper to add itemid's to items. Or do I need to create my own local item database and somehow import itemid's from allakhazam or is it just a simple checkbox I need to check somewhere in the gui?

The GameIDs of the items should match the ID of the used Itembase. If these GameID is empty the included Javascript tooltips won't work.

Our internal Tooltips did work without a GameID, because we had a search function, but this cannot be used if own Tooltips are used.

Thanks a lot again. (donation incoming)

Got the tooltips working y addind itemid's manually on each item.

Is that really the way we need to do it now? Manually add item id's to every single item - even on items with the same name?

Thanks helping me get on with solving the problem
This is how my script looks like now:

<script>var zam_tooltips = { "colorlinks": true, "iconizelinks": true }</script>

<script src="//zam.zamimg.com/j/tooltips.js?c"></script>

and the link box:

<a href="https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item={ITEMID}" {ITEMLINK}> {ITEMNAME}</a>

(for anyone interested or facing the same problems)