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On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:05 AM, 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.
Just change it to something like "YourBotName, run by Marco Schuster ". That will certainly avoid any filters, and provide the desired info.
I used "HDBot API x.y (PHP $phpversion)" as UA. No idea what triggered the filters.
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.
Anyone skilled enough to write a bot is skilled enough to find that out, IMO. Anyway, it should also be in the error message what part of the UA is forbidden.
Marco