By mcantelon on

Hi folks,

I hacked up a module that will wait until January 18th and blackout your Drupal site for the day:

https://github.com/mcantelon/drupal-sopa-blackout

It was developed for, and tested on, a Drupal 6 site although it may work on Drupal 7 as well.

Cheers,
Mike

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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pinguinland’s picture

pinguinland commented

Not working my friend on Drupal 7...

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yermandu@gmail.com commented

i change file sopa.module to drupal 7.x i dont know if will work

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rack88 commented

Worked with Mike to fix the couple of little issues with Drupal 7 as well as use of cleanurls. Should work fine now. Very cool spotlight code Mike!

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artbrock commented

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!

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ericG commented

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

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scottrigby
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@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://basekamp.com
http://PlausibleArtworlds.org
http://UtopiaSchool.org

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

Scott Rigby
http://basekamp.com
http://PlausibleArtworlds.org
http://UtopiaSchool.org

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mcantelon commented

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

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David D commented

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!

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GatorBat commented

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!

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vegancheesesteak commented

Very nice job. Thank you.

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codylacaille commented

Strange i uploaded the module and from the computer i used to upload it's working fine other ppl trying to access my site external seeing the site normal.

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saurabhk_97 commented

Great module and just in time for stop SOPA and PIPA protest!! Works perfectly!!

Regards,

Saurabh

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blg@bgreenaway.com commented

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

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stupiddingo commented

Thanks y'all. This worked brilliantly.

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webchick
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Location Vancouver 🇨🇦
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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. :\