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How is a curl user-agent automatically a well-behaved automation?
by ranger_danger 1y ago
How is a curl user-agent automatically a well-behaved automation?
- fragmede 1y agoOne assumes it is a human, running curl manually, from the command line on a system they're authorized to use. It's not wget -r.
- ranger_danger 1y agoSounds like the perfect opportunity for bots to use the curl user-agent. How do we know they're not already doing this?
- fragmede 1y agoWe don’t but now that we’ve talked about it publicly on the Internet they’re gonna start doing that. I'm sure they previously were, but now we've gone and told them, uh yeah.