On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Marco Schuster marco@harddisk.is-a-geek.org 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.
Just change it to something like "YourBotName, run by Marco Schuster your@e-mail.address". That will certainly avoid any filters, and provide the desired info.
I don't know why the error page doesn't give this info already. The current message only confuses people and -- if they can figure out it's UA-based -- tempts them to mimic browser UA strings. That stands a good chance of getting your IP address blocked if it's noticed (and it's pretty easy to tell when a script is pretending to be a browser, if you look at the whole HTTP request).
The error message is in SVN, but it's the same message provided for all errors. I don't know what sort of config would needed to be done to get a custom message for this error.