Hi,
While browsing the Arch Linux Wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org) from
macOS, I noticed that the server consistently responds with HTTP 429
(Too Many Requests).
After some testing, it appears this behavior is triggered by the
User-Agent, and is not related to IP address, request rate, or cookies.
The following User-Agent from my browser can reproduce the behavior
reliably:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
More specifically, the substring "Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7" is sufficient
to trigger the block.
$curl -vLo /dev/null https://wiki.archlinux.org/ -H "user-agent: Intel
Mac OS X 10_15_7"
* IPv6: 2604:cac0:a104:d::4
* IPv4: 209.126.35.81
< HTTP/2429
< server: nginx
< date: Wed, 28Jan 202606:28:43GMT
< content-type: text/html
< content-length: 162
< strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
Does anyone have any idea about this?
Best regards,
Joseph C.
