Re: [libreplanet-discuss] 403 error if browser's User-Agent is hidden

[John Sullivan]

Sergey Matveev <stargrave@stargrave.org> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> At first I want to apologize if the place I am writing now is the
> wrong one. I unsuccessfuly tried to find some kind of technical support
> contacts.
>
> I am having troubles using the whole groups.fsf.org Wiki when my browser's
> User-Agent is either hidden (is not sending) or dummy (single space for
> example). In my opinion it is the wrong behaviour. I hide my User-Agent
> identification to prevent possibility of tracking. Of course I have
> nothing to worry when using groups.fsf.org, but it is very unconvenient
> to disable U-A hidening all the time visiting this resource.

Thanks, I'm copying this to our sysadmins so they can take a look.

Did you verify that the problem goes away if you do send your user
agent? What browser and OS are you using?

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John Sullivan
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