On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > 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... No, as the bot was not active before (and I'm pretty sure the UA also).
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