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Friendica considers NodeBB a bot #12789

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julianlam opened this issue Sep 12, 2024 · 0 comments
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Friendica considers NodeBB a bot #12789

julianlam opened this issue Sep 12, 2024 · 0 comments
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Ref: friendica/friendica#14226

Likely due to a generic user-agent string from our request lib. Recommend updating to NodeBB/<ver> and seeing if persists.

For security purposes, could be NodeBB/4.x or similarly vague version.

We see bounces back:

<html>
        <head>
                <title>Forbidden</title>
        </head>
        <body>
                <h1>Forbidden</h1>
                <p>Bots are not allowed. If you consider this a mistake, create an issue at https://github.com/friendica/friendica</p>
                                <pre>Request: 66e26633c5135</pre>
                </body>
</html>
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