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Re:Accessing the Internet by Email (2002) by enriquto on Friday October 01, 2021 @08:17AM (#28717477)
First I tried it downloading with wget, but it did not work. Ok, maybe they block wget for some particular reason. Then I removed the wget agent, and it did not work either, which is strange. Are you supposed to copy one of those behemoth UA that pretends to be every browser since 20 years ago at the same time?
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Re:Accessing the Internet by Email (2002) by wowaname on Friday October 01, 2021 @09:18PM (#28725157)
They probably block commonly-abused user-agent strings such as wget and a blank string. A custom string may work, or just spoofing a browser.
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Re:Accessing the Internet by Email (2002) by kwhitefoot on Friday October 01, 2021 @01:49PM (#28721481)
curl works.
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