bug#45179: closed (qutebrowser/IceCat stuck at Cloudflare "Checking your browser before accessing...")

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Your message dated Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:55:35 +0200
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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #45179,
regarding qutebrowser/IceCat stuck at Cloudflare "Checking your browser before 
accessing..."
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> qutebrowser stuck on browser checks forever
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> Fri, 11 Dec 2020 08:41:09 -0600
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> guix (GNU Guix) 91e35e32a4938e0e37499c64fa8ed3e7cf51dce3
> some example sites with browser checks:
> https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in
> http://livechart.me/
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> 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.
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#45179: qutebrowser stuck at Cloudflare 'browser checks' Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:55:35 +0200 User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux)

"bdju" <bdju@tilde.team> writes:
> On Tue Apr 6, 2021 at 4:41 PM CDT, bdju wrote:
>> While I was able to bypass the cloudflare checks in IceCat with that
>> User Agent Switcher addon, I found I so far haven't been able to get
>> past them in qutebrowser by changing my useragent. I tried both your
>> example and copying one of the useragents generated by UAS in IceCat.
>> Still caught in a loop. (and I am using --temp-basedir as you said, so
>> shouldn't be my config)
> I was too hasty! I both had to change my useragent and wait a long time!
> I didn't measure the time, but I'd guess over 10 minutes for Gitlab to
> work. Livechart took even longer. Thanks so much for this workaround.
> Oh, and this works without --temp-basedir, by the way. I should be able
> to actually use these sites in my normal session now I think!

Yay!  That's great to hear, so let's close this ;)

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