README: improve note about CDNs and user-agent blocking - sfeed - RSS and Atom parser (HTM) git clone git://git.codemadness.org/sfeed (DIR) Log (DIR) Files (DIR) Refs (DIR) README (DIR) LICENSE --- (DIR) commit e96bdb644ae2f49125079e6218e2777caf633e1c (DIR) parent 44a4824eeba93a13511251a907179393f247c201 (HTM) Author: Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 14:44:34 +0200 README: improve note about CDNs and user-agent blocking Prompted by a question from a user. Specificly mention reddit.com now blocks clients which don't set the User-Agent header. It is specificly mentioned because there is a reddit feed in the example sfeedrc. Diffstat: M README | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- (DIR) diff --git a/README b/README @@ -679,8 +679,8 @@ additional metadata from the previous request. CDNs blocking requests due to a missing HTTP User-Agent request header sfeed_update will not send the "User-Agent" header by default for privacy -reasons. Some CDNs like Cloudflare don't like this and will block such HTTP -requests. +reasons. Some CDNs like Cloudflare or websites like Reddit.com don't like this +and will block such HTTP requests. A custom User-Agent can be set by using the curl -H option, like so: