Haveibeenpwned Checker stopped working - requests are blocked

[MaverickT]

We had been using Haveibeenpwned Checker for last couple of months to check if authenticated users were on Haveibeenpwned list. The API started returning 403 error each time when we requested it. We did a little bit of research and figured out that API requires proper request header.

[MaverickT · Accepted solution]

We solved this issue by adding following lines to hipb-query.py - line 55:

        # Get a copy of the default headers that requests would use
        headers = requests.utils.default_headers()
        headers.update(
            {
                'User-Agent': 'Splunk haveIBeenPwned checker 1.0',
            }
        )

And on line 62 we changed request to:

r = requests.get(url,headers=headers,proxies=proxyDict,timeout=50)

Case closed. Happy Splunking! 🙂

[Anam]

Hi @MaverickT

Thank you for posting the solution to your question. Can you please go ahead and post the solution as an actual answer in the "write an answer" box below. After you post the answer please go ahead and accept the answer so it is searchable for others.

Thanks