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authorHiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>2023-06-09 14:44:34 +0200
committerHiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>2023-06-09 14:44:34 +0200
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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.
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@@ -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: