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| author | Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org> | 2023-06-09 14:44:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org> | 2023-06-09 14:44:34 +0200 |
| commit | e96bdb644ae2f49125079e6218e2777caf633e1c (patch) | |
| tree | 03ed1d689c18892c6338eb189719d40032d733bc | |
| parent | 44a4824eeba93a13511251a907179393f247c201 (diff) | |
README: improve note about CDNs and user-agent blocking
Prompted by a question from a user. Specificly mention reddit.com now blocks
clients which don't set the User-Agent header. It is specificly mentioned
because there is a reddit feed in the example sfeedrc.
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -679,8 +679,8 @@ additional metadata from the previous request. CDNs blocking requests due to a missing HTTP User-Agent request header sfeed_update will not send the "User-Agent" header by default for privacy -reasons. Some CDNs like Cloudflare don't like this and will block such HTTP -requests. +reasons. Some CDNs like Cloudflare or websites like Reddit.com don't like this +and will block such HTTP requests. A custom User-Agent can be set by using the curl -H option, like so: |