bug#45179: qutebrowser stuck at Cloudflare 'browser checks'

[Michael Rohleder]

Hello bdju,

"bdju" <bdju@tilde.team> writes:
> guix (GNU Guix) 91e35e32a4938e0e37499c64fa8ed3e7cf51dce3
> some example sites with browser checks:
> https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in
> http://livechart.me/
>
> I already contacted the people in the qutebrowser IRC. The bug persists
> when I launch with no config (`qutebrowser --temp-basedir'), and they
> could not reproduce the issue on the same version of qutebrowser I'm
> using. I suspect it may be an issue with the guix version.
>

A workaround is setting the "User Agent" string to something CF likes, e.g. 
like this:
qutebrowser --temp-basedir --set content.headers.user_agent 'Mozilla/5.0 
(Windows NT 6.1; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0' 
https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in

Maybe the reason why the (very helpful) #qutebrowser folks can't
reproduce this, is because they use another qt version (qutebrowser uses
qtwebengine) and perhaps this sets user agent to a string that CF has
whitelisted.

I don't think there is much we could do here (besides updating qt and
mbakke has that in the pipeline, afaik).

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