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Unless you were being tongue-in-cheek, you've completely sidestepped the intent of my comment and continued with the linguistic silliness. Obtaining paywall-pr
by Spare_account 11y ago
Unless you were being tongue-in-cheek, you've completely sidestepped the intent of my comment and continued with the linguistic silliness.
Obtaining paywall-protected content by faking your user agent to purport yourself to be a Google Crawler is quite clearly fraudulent. This isn't a point for debate.
PS. To play along with the linguistic theme, can you provide a source for the definition of a malformed request? My original intent when using the word malformed was not to invoke it's technical definition but rather it's dictionary definition. But, having said that, I just had a 30 second Google hunt and couldn't find anything to corroborate your position.
- oldmanjay 11y agoI wasn't playing a linguistic game. You mentioned standards and malformed requests, and I pointed out that you misused those terms. I am not bothering to track down definitions for you to play, as you say, linguistic games. You are free to find something that proves my position wrong, as I used the RFC to cite my position as correct. If you meant to put forth that faking a user agent is a technique to exceed authorization, that's fine, and I'm glad to have helped you clarify it. Just be clear, it's not what you said with your detour into malformed requests.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoSo...if I only entitle Mozilla based agents to view my content and Chrome, IE, and Safari users still get access by claiming to be a Mozilla agent, those users have committed a felony? This line of argumentation is beyond ridiculous.
- Spare_account 11y agoAre your Mozilla users paying for access? Are the Chrome users with the fake agent strings obtaining paid-for content for free? The use of forged agent strings isn't the offence.