URLHeadBear: fake the user-agent

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URLHeadBear: fake the user-agent #1203

Open coala-bot opened 7 years ago

coala-bot commented 7 years ago

e.g. https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/blob/2702690/pywikibot/comms/http.py#L256

Opened via gitter by @jayvdb

sils commented 7 years ago

What's the usecase?

jayvdb commented 7 years ago

gitter December 24, 2016 9:31 PM

on travis : "[InvalidLinkBear] Broken link - unable to connect to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145 (HTTP Error: 503)" - wget from my machine : 403. in a web browser, no problem

IpshitaC commented 7 years ago

Could we address this as a part of our RGSoC project? Can you please elaborate a bit more on what needs to be done here? @Udayan12167 @prachi1210

Makman2 commented 7 years ago

this is not a huge issue to implement and has no gsoc scope.

Akhelesh commented 5 years ago

@jayvdb Please assign this issue to me