Hi Grant, you are right. Qt is using "Mozilla 5.0" as default. I just cross checked with wireshark. I assumed that setting no user-agent does not transmit anything. My fault.
Anyway, as I do not agree with your terms of use simply keep on blocking it. That's ok for me. Regards Oliver > Gesendet: Montag, 17. Februar 2014 um 15:46 Uhr > Von: "Grant Slater" <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [Qlandkartegt-users] OSM Tile Server & fake user-agents > > Oliver Eichler <oliver.eichler@...> writes: > > > > > I have a discussion with one of the maintainers from the OSM tile server. > He is detecting fake user-agent > > strings and is assuming that QLandkarte is the culprit. Probably he is > right if anyone of you is still using > > the development snapshots with the fake user-agent string. > > > > Oliver, you are not reporting accurately what I requested. > > QLandkarte has been using the user-agent "Mozilla 5.0" for a long time, this > user-agent is widely used by mass downloading tile scrapers. A few weeks ago > OpenStreetMap was badly overloaded after a hardware failure and I blocked > some of the largest tile scrapers to keep the service available to mappers. > (1). QLandkarte was unintentionally blocked because of the user-agent. > > Yesterday I kindly asked you to set an application specific User-Agent. eg: > QLandkarte/1.5.6 (2) and suggested if you wanted to protect users' privacy > that you use the SSL tiles we offer: https://[abc].tile.openstreetmap.org/ > I unblocked the "Mozilla 5.0" user-agent as good will to the users and to > allow time for transition to a fixed version. (3) > > > Thus do me a favor and stop it. Faking the agent is indeed a bad idea and > not very fair. Before you do things that > > annoy the OSM tile server admin more than necessary, consider using > alternative online maps. > > > > I have absolutely no issue with QLandkarte users using OpenStreetMap tiles > as long as a real app specific user-agent is used. > > Today you indicated to me that you are unwilling to set an app specific > user-agent, so I restored the block on the bad-user-agent. (4) > > Kind regards, > Grant > Part of the OpenStreetMap sysadmin team > > 1: > http://git.openstreetmap.org/chef.git/commitdiff/6da3029671af74f2696bc2544573fae856d8120f > 2: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.43 > 3: > http://git.openstreetmap.org/chef.git/commitdiff/be846dabb9b397e690fbd0cc4c6a8590101f3feb > 4: > http://git.openstreetmap.org/chef.git/commitdiff/91c1eb8f5110d44bed49a285044683afaec760a2 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 > Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. > Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. > Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Qlandkartegt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
