Marco Schuster wrote:
> Is there any list of those UAs or UA parts available?
> I had this problem some time ago with my bot which used a custom UA
> string and got access denied, so I changed its UA to Firefox as I had
> no nerves to track down WHICH part of the UA triggered the filter.
> 
> Marco

Perhaps they were blocking *your* bot?
Faking your user agent to match a browser make sysadmins assume bad faith...


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