Oliver Eichler wrote...
> a few days ago OSM changed their server URL and their policy of
> access. The request a known user-agent string to be transmitted else
> they will forbid access.
Says who?
The policy that I am aware of is in the OSM wiki[0], and according to
the wiki history that document wasn't changed in months.
If you read a "Valid User-Agent" requirement there, you've stopped
reading way too soon. The full requirement is
| Valid User-Agent identifying application.
With commit r3770, QLGT made things worse, for the sentence that
follows:
| Faking another app's User-Agent WILL get you blocked.
Before that commit, any QLGT dev could claimed not having been aware
of neither that policy detail nor the fact the QT libraries insert a
"Mozilla/5.0" user agent if the application does not provide one. To
be honest, I wasn't either. The change at the OSM tile servers, about
a week ago, was to block requests with that string[1].
The given commit however can easily be understood as adding insult to
injury, by intentionally claiming to be a "Mozilla" user agent. I am
not a mapnik tile server administrator, but if, I was tempted to add
immediately that string to the block list, too.
As a happy[2] QLandkarteGT user I am afraid this might lead to a silly
war of blocking and another working around it. So please send a user
agent string that is compliant with the mapnik tile server policy. For
my understanding of the HTTP RFC, "QLandkarteGT/"VER_STR should do the
right thing, and that's what I proposed in the Debian BTS[3] yesterday
before realizing how much things went wrong in upstream.
Christoph
PS: *Please* change the message subject when appropriate. I almost
oversaw that thread in the archives.
[0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy
[1]
http://git.openstreetmap.org/chef.git/commitdiff/6da3029671af74f2696bc2544573fae856d8120f
[2] after disabling the phone-home feature
[3] http://bugs.debian.org/736550
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