Comment by ranger_danger 4 months ago How is a curl user-agent automatically a well-behaved automation? 3 comments ranger_danger Reply fragmede 4 months ago 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. ranger_danger 4 months ago Sounds like the perfect opportunity for bots to use the curl user-agent. How do we know they're not already doing this? fragmede 4 months ago We don’t but now that we’ve talked about it publicly on the Internet they’re gonna start doing that. I'm sure they previously were, but now we've gone and told them, uh yeah.
fragmede 4 months ago 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. ranger_danger 4 months ago Sounds like the perfect opportunity for bots to use the curl user-agent. How do we know they're not already doing this? fragmede 4 months ago We don’t but now that we’ve talked about it publicly on the Internet they’re gonna start doing that. I'm sure they previously were, but now we've gone and told them, uh yeah.
ranger_danger 4 months ago Sounds like the perfect opportunity for bots to use the curl user-agent. How do we know they're not already doing this? fragmede 4 months ago We don’t but now that we’ve talked about it publicly on the Internet they’re gonna start doing that. I'm sure they previously were, but now we've gone and told them, uh yeah.
fragmede 4 months ago We don’t but now that we’ve talked about it publicly on the Internet they’re gonna start doing that. I'm sure they previously were, but now we've gone and told them, uh yeah.
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?
We don’t but now that we’ve talked about it publicly on the Internet they’re gonna start doing that. I'm sure they previously were, but now we've gone and told them, uh yeah.