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README: improve note about CDNs and user-agent blocking - sfeed - RSS and Atom parser |
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git clone git://git.codemadness.org/sfeed (git://git.codemadness.org) |
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README |
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LICENSE |
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commit e96bdb644ae2f49125079e6218e2777caf633e1c |
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parent 44a4824eeba93a13511251a907179393f247c201 |
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Author: Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org> (mailto://) |
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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 14:44:34 +0200 |
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README: improve note about CDNs and user-agent blocking |
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Prompted by a question from a user. Specificly mention reddit.com now blocks |
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clients which don't set the User-Agent header. It is specificly mentioned |
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because there is a reddit feed in the example sfeedrc. |
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M README | 4 ++-- |
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1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) |
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diff --git a/README b/README |
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@@ -679,8 +679,8 @@ additional metadata from the previous request. |
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CDNs blocking requests due to a missing HTTP User-Agent request header |
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sfeed_update will not send the "User-Agent" header by default for privacy |
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-reasons. Some CDNs like Cloudflare don't like this and will block such HTTP |
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-requests. |
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+reasons. Some CDNs like Cloudflare or websites like Reddit.com don't like this |
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+and will block such HTTP requests. |
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A custom User-Agent can be set by using the curl -H option, like so: |
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