Re: IETF web site behind CloudFlare

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Hi John,

On 2014-09-17 22:30, John Kristoff wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:52:32 +0200
> Linus Nordberg <linus+ietf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> This is sad because it's now not possible to visit the site without
>> accepting JavaScript. At least if you get selected for solving a
>> CAPTCHA. Tor users is one group of users who are selected.
> 
> It is not just CloudFlare where the IETF resources have begun to be a
> lot more particular about what your packets should look like. If you try
> to browse to tools.ietf.org without presenting an acceptable User Agent
> string you get a 403 forbidden.  I submitted a ticket about this
> behavior about a year ago.

If you want to be fair, you should also mention that I replied and explained
the issue.  And it's not a matter of needing to present an _acceptable_ 
User Agent, it's a matter of me having be forced to block some ill-behaved
robots that I only could identify by them not presenting any User Agent at all.


Regards,

	Henrik





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