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No changes in stack apps or my code, it was working fine for a while, suddenly it stopped working now.

I get "InternalOAuthError: Failed to obtain access token"

After more details inspection, I came to conclusion that CloudFlare is blocking my requests due to security measures. Why is CloudFlare perceiving my requests as harmful/not trusted?

I have my application deployed in Azure Virtual Machine. So it's Azure External IP and it is under a .com domain name.

Additional information I get this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=\"en-US\">

<head>
  <title>Just a moment...</title>
  <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=UTF-8\">
  <meta http-equiv=\"X-UA-Compatible\" content=\"IE=Edge\">
  <meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex,nofollow\">
  <meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1\">
window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash = location.hash === '' && location.href.indexOf('#') !== -1 ? '#' : location.hash;
window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUQuery = location.search === '' && location.href.slice(0, location.href.length - window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash.length).indexOf('?') !== -1 ? '?' : location.search;
if (window.history && window.history.replaceState) {
  var ogU = location.pathname + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUQuery + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash;
  history.replaceState(null, null, \"\\/oauth\\/access_token?__cf_chl_rt_tk=-1708042411-0.0-4071\" + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash)

[Edit]: After more tests, I found out that I can't even do a HTTP GET request to Stack Overflow Website from my Azure Virtual Machine due to the same message.

So even "curl https://stackoverflow.com" fails with the "Just a moment..."

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Answered by Josh Zhang (SRE) over on MSE

Sorry it took a while to get to me and hunt down the issue but it this issue should now be resolved. Part of the issue is that the managed challenge from Cloudflare was intermittent making tracking down the root issue difficult.

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