| Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 14:44:34 +0200
README: improve note about CDNs and user-agent blocking
Prompted by a question from a user. Specificly mention reddit.com now blocks
clients which don't set the User-Agent header. It is specificly mentioned
because there is a reddit feed in the example sfeedrc.
Diffstat:
M README | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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| @@ -679,8 +679,8 @@ additional metadata from the previous request.
CDNs blocking requests due to a missing HTTP User-Agent request header
sfeed_update will not send the "User-Agent" header by default for privacy
-reasons. Some CDNs like Cloudflare don't like this and will block such HTTP
-requests.
+reasons. Some CDNs like Cloudflare or websites like Reddit.com don't like this
+and will block such HTTP requests.
A custom User-Agent can be set by using the curl -H option, like so:
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