Hi Richard, Sounds fair to me, you can put the user agent string setting ( /qgis/networkAndProxy/userAgent ) in global_settings.ini, no need to rebuild.
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/resources/qgis_global_settings.ini On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 5:30 PM Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmaili...@duif.net> wrote: > Hi Devs, PSC, > > I had a short talk on IRC to 'Firefishy' the person who runs > tile.openstreetmap.org CDN > (in bcc, and see: http://irclogs.geoapt.com/qgis/%23qgis.2019-02-20.log) > > In short: he/osm has an issue with QGIS using 'Mozilla/5.0 ....' as > User-Agent header, but QGIS NOT behaving as a true browser. > > He explains that the tricks to create their abuse filters do not work on > QGIS because (for example) we do not honor cookies. > > I asked this earlier: > > > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-Developer-Do-we-have-a-User-Agent-string-for-QGIS-td5360740.html > > But in my opinion now is time to change our default UserAgent. > > In the email thread above people were afraid that certain wms proxies > would block us, but I think we should just try. > > IF we have proxy troubles, we can change the UserAgent per service? For > example change the UserAgent only for OSM related services. > Mmm, is it possible to do that via Python... > > I think that we should honor requests from a colleague-FOSS-service. He > notes that they are exceeding 17000 tile requests per second at peaks... > > Regards, > > Richard Duivenvoorde > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer -- Alessandro Pasotti w3: www.itopen.it
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