On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 05:25:11PM +0000, Francis Daly wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 03:05:25PM +1100, Sylvain BERTRAND wrote: > > On many nginx powered web sites, I must not send the user agent or I'll get > > a > > 403 forbidden. > > The administrators of those web sites do not want you as a customer. > > Probably they have configured their servers to deny any request that > includes "libwww" in the User-Agent.
I'm about to block sending the user agent for good and all www sites. (or I will send a custom one). On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 05:25:11PM +0000, Francis Daly wrote: > You could contact them and ask them to allow your preferred user-agent; > you could adjust your user-agent string so that it does not match their > presumed block list until they change it; or you could not visit those > sites and encourage others not to visit them too. > > If you tell them why you are not visiting their sites, maybe they will > change their configuration to welcome you. > > But unless the nginx.org (or possibly nginx.com) web sites are among > the sites that block you, there's probably not much that readers of this > list can do about it. That's why I'm posting here: *Only nginx* www sites does block lynx. Something is not right there: a default aggressive blocking policy from nginx? -- Sylvain _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx