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Nice.
Possibly someone is trying to make guesses based on User-Agent header? Then coercing user to install certain third party software?
In any event, the result is: if "wrong" User-Agent header, then no access.
Moreover, robots.txt does not list the UA header I used to test accessibility.
Idea: If website authors prefer certain browsers to be used, then provide machine-readable list of acceptable browsers. Better yet, provide list of acceptable User-Agent headers.
(Is this list provided by outdatedbrowsers.com? Not quite. For example, curl works fine and it is not listed.)
IMHO: User-agent header is a header not a browser. As in the old adage that "an IP address is an IP address assigned to an interface, not a computer."
The fact is, in some cases, the user is the only one who really knows what "browser" she is using.
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Nice.Possibly someone is trying to make guesses based on User-Agent header? Then coercing user to install certain third party software?
In any event, the result is: if "wrong" User-Agent header, then no access.
Moreover, robots.txt does not list the UA header I used to test accessibility.
Idea: If website authors prefer certain browsers to be used, then provide machine-readable list of acceptable browsers. Better yet, provide list of acceptable User-Agent headers.
(Is this list provided by outdatedbrowsers.com? Not quite. For example, curl works fine and it is not listed.)
IMHO: User-agent header is a header not a browser. As in the old adage that "an IP address is an IP address assigned to an interface, not a computer."
The fact is, in some cases, the user is the only one who really knows what "browser" she is using.