Drupal SOPA blackout module

If you don't want Google to reindex your site and find only a SOPA page and lose all your other content in their records, you should be generating a 503 HTTP (Site temporarily unavailable) response header code when you render this page.

See this article: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/01/protest-sopa-blackout-your-website-the-...

The article provides this sample code for PHP:

header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable');
header('Retry-After: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT');

I like the look of the blackout page! And thanks for putting all this together on such short notice!

thanks!

Posted by ericG on January 18, 2012 at 2:46am

I added in the above lines to the module (after line 10) and tested it and it seems to work perfectly.

Github update

Posted by scottrigby on January 18, 2012 at 3:00am

@artbrock: good call.

Made an issue on mcantelon's project:
https://github.com/mcantelon/drupal-sopa-blackout/issues/2

Because time is of the essence, I forked to add this (also added 6.x & 7.x branches/tags for people to use as-is without having to edit). Feel free to download from here in the meantime:
https://github.com/basekamp/drupal-sopa-blackout

Scott Rigby
http://dlc-solutions.com
http://basekamp.com
http://PlausibleArtworlds.org

thx

Posted by scottrigby on January 18, 2012 at 3:02am

@mcantelon: btw, nice work in short order =)

Scott Rigby
http://dlc-solutions.com
http://basekamp.com
http://PlausibleArtworlds.org

re: thx

Posted by mcantelon on January 18, 2012 at 6:19am

My pleasure... thanks again for your fixes! :D

-Mike Cantelon
http://mikecantelon.com

The module didn't work for me

Posted by David D on January 18, 2012 at 8:44am

The module didn't work for me on several D6 sites. It just produced a 503 site offline error in every case. So I just used the brute force approach, putting up the template file as index.php. Now I just gotta remember to switch back!

Just wanted to thank you for

Posted by GatorBat on January 18, 2012 at 2:28pm

Just wanted to thank you for how quickly this module was put together. I had issues at first with one of my sites not loading the blackout page, but once I grabbed the newest code from your GitHub (https://github.com/mcantelon/drupal-sopa-blackout/zipball/master), both my personal and community sites (D6) are Blacked out and look great!

Regards,

Saurabh

good job

Posted by tzoben on January 18, 2012 at 8:29pm

props!
Fill a much needed hole you did :-)

Ben Greenaway
- Drupaling TZO-DDNS, amongst others....

Thanks y'all. This worked

Posted by stupiddingo on January 19, 2012 at 6:05am

Thanks y'all. This worked brilliantly.

Y U NO on Drupal.org?

Posted by webchick on January 21, 2012 at 8:33pm

Darn. I went here http://drupal.org/project/sopa to try and get this on my site on Jan 18 and there wasn't anything. :\

Drupal SOPA blackout module

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Drupal 7...

i change file sopa.module to

Drupal 7 Works Now

This should generate a 503 error code to preserve Google Rank