[scribus-dev] Problem accessing wiki and bugs webpages

[Craig Bradney]

> On 10 Nov 2016, at 22:01, Juraj Fedel <wtxnh-scribus at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

While I feel you might have a case for use to investigate given the agent change works, I must say that the websites are not really built to work in a text only mode so we would not support this in any case. 
I’m interested to understand the agent thing though and will try some tests. I know we do not do any agent type filtering on the server itself.

Craig