Reuters user-agent fuckwittage: "dynamo-internal/html"

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Not directly related to GNU/Linux, but vaguely apropos.

I've noted a problem being able to load any pages from
http://www.reuters.com/ in multiple browsers. Turns out the problem is
that Reuters is apparently specifically parsing user-agent strings, and
borks over the one I use.

Specifically, I surf behind a squid proxy, with the following directive:

header_replace User-Agent W3C standards are important. Stop fucking \
obsessing over user-agent already.

Toggling this setting (commenting/uncommenting) and reloading my Squid
config, I find I can surf the site with the header disabled, and cannot
when it's enabled.

There are reasons for my choosing this setting, largely exemplified by
the current example: changing webserver behavior on the basis of
arbitrary user-agent strings is broken behavior. For background, see:

http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/v...serAgentString



I'd previously noted the problem here:

http://tinyurl.com/3ea2f


Peace.

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