Comment by xena
4 months ago
This was a tactical decision I made in order to avoid breaking well-behaved automation that properly identifies itself. I have been mocked endlessly for it. There is no winning.
4 months ago
This was a tactical decision I made in order to avoid breaking well-behaved automation that properly identifies itself. I have been mocked endlessly for it. There is no winning.
The winning condition does not need to consider people who write before they think.
How is a curl user-agent automatically a well-behaved automation?
One assumes it is a human, running curl manually, from the command line on a system they're authorized to use. It's not wget -r.
Sounds like the perfect opportunity for bots to use the curl user-agent. How do we know they're not already doing this?
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