Hi Owen, Maybe just write Tim a mail and ask him to put us on his cloudflare allowlist. Maybe we should also send a more specific user agent when requesting 3rd party APIs in general. Just a thought, though. Really only confirming what you already proposed.
Kind regards Paul -- LMSCloud GmbH Paul Derscheid - Software Engineer Bismarckstr. 3 - D-72764 Reutlingen m +49 174 2436308 e paul.dersch...@lmscloud.de w www.lmscloud.de > On 29. Sep 2023, at 13:10, Owen Leonard <oleon...@myacpl.org> wrote: > > I noticed recently that requests to LibraryThing's ThingISBN service > are being blocked. Koha tries to access a url like this: > > https://www.librarything.com/api/thingISBN/0439139600 > > ...which opens fine in a browser, but triggers the response "WARNING: > URL Request Failed 403 Forbidden" when Koha tries it. > > Koha is currently sending the user agent "libwww-perl/6.52" and if I > use Firefox's developer tools to load the page with that set as a > custom user agent I get a CloudFlare-generated "access denied" > message. > > I see other CloudFlare customers complaining about this, so it may > just be a default. Should we ask LibraryThing to change their > configuration? Should we send a less obtrusive user agent with the > request? > > -- Owen > > -- > Web Developer > Athens County Public Libraries > (740) 737-6006 > https://www.myacpl.org > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : https://www.koha-community.org/ > git : https://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : https://bugs.koha-community.org/
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