From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: "Red" And The DoD Language Competition Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 07:21:39 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <0001HW.2C93AE0500F5F854306B4D38F@news.individual.net> <87seu42t7x.fsf@nightsong.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 09:21:39 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f0b3208cd64aa384126f587d0af4cdfe"; logging-data="1432116"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX184IiniouedhejSJeu+PsUB" User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ilZo9oCQcM8j4K4oa9bKasTqGqc= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:66376 List-Id: On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 01:27:22 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote: > "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" wrote in message > news:vc091i$ljiq$2@dont-email.me... >> >> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 19:16:50 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: >> >>> I run into sites all the time that block the wget user agent, but that >>> I can retrieve with curl. >> >> And I run into sites all the time that block the default wget user >> agent, but that I can retrieve with wget. > > You're confused. The attackers aren't using Wget, but they are > *claiming* to be WGet. But that long list of user agents being blocked that you previously mentioned did not include wget.