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Issue 55: request_streams needs to send a User-Agent header
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Reported by pikadude...@gmail.com, Jan 16, 2012
Any HTTP request sent to LiveJournal without a User-Agent header will fail, so LightOpenID needs to add one for maximum compatibility. As I understand it, LiveJournal added this check to help fend off DDoS attacks they've been getting.
Jan 16, 2012
Project Member #1 mewp...@gmail.com
And what user agent would that be?
Lying that one is, for example, firefox isn't a good idea (because it skews statistics if they make them), and unknown user-agents might be blocked as well.
Jan 16, 2012
#2 pikadude...@gmail.com
I've only tried "PHP" in my tests; LiveJournal is OK with that.
Feb 10, 2012
Project Member #3 mewp...@gmail.com
 Issue 57  has been merged into this issue.
Feb 20, 2012
#4 HendrikU...@nexgo.de
I wonder if that might be related to issue 46. Sourceforge is known to prevent access to normal webpages if the User-Agent is either blank or in a black list. So if you want to download Sourceforge Webpages, you have to set the user agent header to something (preferable something unique). I don't know if that is related to openid at all.

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