From e96bdb644ae2f49125079e6218e2777caf633e1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hiltjo Posthuma Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 14:44:34 +0200 Subject: 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. --- README | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index d128360..8098a76 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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: -- cgit v1.2.3