[scribus-dev] Problem accessing wiki and bugs webpages

Juraj Fedel wtxnh-scribus at yahoo.com.au
Thu Nov 10 21:01:09 UTC 2016


On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 09:13:26PM +0100, Craig Bradney wrote:

> You’re the only one we’ve heard of. What is your preferred browser because all the ones I have work fine.

My browser is rather exotic, it is w3m - browser that is used within
emacs buffer. It presents itself with following User-Agent to server:
"Emacs-w3m/1.4.483 w3m/0.5.3+debian-19"

When I change that string to
"Firefox"
I can access website.

You can test this with wget too. wget is denied access to bugs site
normally:

$ wget https://bugs.scribus.net/
--2016-11-10 21:39:21--  https://bugs.scribus.net/
Resolving bugs.scribus.net (bugs.scribus.net)... 31.185.27.100
Connecting to bugs.scribus.net (bugs.scribus.net)|31.185.27.100|:443...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2016-11-10 21:39:21 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

If I use following command I can download page:

$ wget --user-agent=Firefox https://bugs.scribus.net/
--2016-11-10 21:54:08--  https://bugs.scribus.net/
Resolving bugs.scribus.net (bugs.scribus.net)... 31.185.27.100
Connecting to bugs.scribus.net (bugs.scribus.net)|31.185.27.100|:443...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://bugs.scribus.net/my_view_page.php [following]
--2016-11-10 21:54:09--  https://bugs.scribus.net/my_view_page.php
Reusing existing connection to bugs.scribus.net:443.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘index.html’
index.html                        [  <=>                                               ]  42.72K   207KB/s   in 0.2s
2016-11-10 21:54:10 (207 KB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [43746]

As I said, I fixed my problem now (Thanks goes to Kunda for asking
question and a.l.e for answering it on IRC today).
You may ignore this issue.

Juraj Fedel



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