Hi Richard, Each user can change the UserAgent, as ElPaso pointed out (under Advanced settings).
But you are suggesting to start distributing QGIS with a different default other than "Mozilla/5.0", right? Which kind of UserAgent you think is a good one? "QGIS <version>"? We can also add another default setting (not difficult to implement) to use a specific UserAgent string when using te OpenStreetMap tile service, and keep the default for all other services. Something like: connections-xyz\OpenStreetMap\useragent=QGIS Regards, Jorge Às 16:30 de 20/02/19, Richard Duivenvoorde escreveu: > 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 > J. Gustavo -- Jorge Gustavo Rocha Departamento de Informática Universidade do Minho 4710-057 Braga Tel: +351 253604480 Fax: +351 253604471 Móvel: +351 910333888 skype: nabocudnosor _______________________________________________ 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