[MC-62804] Blocked IP's on api.mojang.com broke single player

I have recently been playing around on my single player game, and decided to play around with player heads. After a lot of heads, every single player I tried to get a head for was just a steve skin. I did anyone from myself to friends to mojang employee names. Every single time it appeared as a steve skin. I used the command "/give hcherndon 397 1 3 {SkullOwner:"hcherndon"}" An image of what it looks like has been provided.Thanks, hcherndon

Edited with correct scenario after realizing I typed a few commands wrong.

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crash.txt

Comments 21

Doc Zed 2014-07-21T14:21:43Z

You do not type username, you should type your MineCraft name, that is why ti is saying he user cannot be found.

Holt Herndon 2014-07-21T14:25:25Z

Oh lol. One sec, I'll reproduce it using the correct name.

Holt Herndon 2014-07-21T14:28:26Z

Changed to correct imaging.

user-f2760 2014-07-21T14:29:35Z

please force a crash by pressing f3+c for 10 seconds and attach the report

Holt Herndon 2014-07-21T14:31:21Z

Attached a forced crash report from request.

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user-f2760 2014-07-21T14:32:37Z

Minecraft Version: 1.7.9

can you see if the bug occures in 1.7.10 or the 1.8 snapshots?

Holt Herndon 2014-07-21T14:34:41Z

Version wouldn't matter, it's the Mojang skin servers denying my IP.

user-f2760 2014-07-21T14:37:06Z

still you should try, it could give an diffrent result, also make sure there is no firewall blocking the conection

Holt Herndon 2014-07-21T14:42:41Z

I will try here in a second. Firewalls are not an issue, it was working earlier. Attaching image for both 1.7.10 and 1.8

user-f2760 2014-07-21T14:48:28Z

well, I'm out of ideas

Ben Smith 2014-07-21T16:29:57Z

As far as I'm aware this is due to Mojang rate-limiting a critical API of theirs recently, I'm not 100% sure why...

fienxjox 2014-07-21T16:41:47Z

Please do not mark unreleased versions (anything starting with "Future Version") as affected. You don't have access to them yet.

Holt Herndon 2014-07-21T18:51:00Z

Sorry, didn't know if it was referring to snapshots or not. Updated versions to add the other snapshot version.

kumasasa 2014-07-21T19:08:23Z

After having this issue: Please attach the complete output of the "Development console" which can be found on the second tab of the launcher.

If the launcher closes after game start, please edit your profile and select "Launcher visibility" then, "Keep the launcher open".

Holt Herndon 2014-07-21T19:28:13Z

Attaching console output by request, uploading an image of my client next.

Holt Herndon 2014-07-21T19:36:46Z

Reuploading Console.txt, removing some spam chat while on servers to keep the log clean. I also noticed, while I was on a server, there was the same exception that was happening while on singleplayer.

kumasasa 2014-07-21T19:47:28Z

There is something blocking access between your Minecraft client and Mojang's servers, probably a firewall, anti virus, parental control software or similar:

[14:14:37 INFO]: Client> [14:14:37] [Texture Downloader #48/ERROR]: Couldn't download http texture
[14:14:37 INFO]: Client> java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect

Eventually you're getting blocked for DOSing the Mojang servers:

[14:24:32 INFO]: Client> [14:24:32] [Server thread/WARN]: Couldn't look up profile properties for com.mojang.authlib.GameProfile@3978d21a[id=d883e955-7bc1-43e5-8127-5874e94f2166,name=hcherndon,properties={},legacy=false]
[14:24:32 INFO]: Client> com.mojang.authlib.exceptions.AuthenticationException: The client has sent too many requests within a certain amount of time
[14:24:32 INFO]: Client> 	at com.mojang.authlib.yggdrasil.YggdrasilAuthenticationService.makeRequest(YggdrasilAuthenticationService.java:65) ~[authlib-1.5.13.jar:?]

This is a technical support issue; this site is for bug reports only. For technical support please use the Mojang Support Center.

Holt Herndon 2014-07-21T19:49:45Z

I have no firewall, anti-virus or parental control software between my computer and the outer world. I control my internet in full.

I'm getting blocked for playing the game? I feel this isn't a technical support issue.

kumasasa 2014-07-21T19:51:40Z

Anyway, this is no bug.

Ben Smith 2014-07-21T19:52:43Z

This isn't a technical issue, this is a bug with the rate-limiting of the API by Mojang.

While it might be technically a DOS, it's a very low threshold they've set. This bug report serves to prove that they are harming vanilla gameplay with their rate-limiting.

Christie N 2014-07-23T01:08:55Z

In 1.7.9 / 1.7.10 sending two requests within a few minutes triggers the "too many requests" message, while I have not had this problem in the snapshots.