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From: ben--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au>, 45179@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45179: qutebrowser stuck at Cloudflare 'browser checks'
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 22:58:28 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kiwuhi3.fsf@sturm.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eeibfbb6.fsf@netris.org>


On Sun, 24 Jan 2021, Mark H. Weaver wrote:

> ben--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I'm also having similar issues accessing gitlab.com with IceCat.
>> Installing the User Agent Switcher and setting to "Linux / Firefox 82"
>> fixed this for me.
>>
>> For context I also tried starting IceCat up in safe mode and switching
>> tracking protection back to "standard", but no good. The issue appears
>> to be that Cloudflare are essentially blocking niche user agents.
>
> The IceCat package in Guix sends the same user-agent string as the
> 'firefox-esr' package in Debian.

I've done a little more testing for interest sake - I still think
CloudFlare are at fault here.

If use a private tab and attempt to access a private GitLab repository I
get stuck at the CloudFlare "checking your browser message". Here's the
IceCat default user-agent string:

"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0"

If I install User Agent Switcher and do the same thing, it works. The
only difference in the user-agent string is the version number:

"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:82.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/82.0"

If I try the same on Firefox ESR on Debian Buster, it works no problem,
but as Mark says, the Firefox user-agent string matches exactly to
IceCat:

"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0"

That suggests to me that there's more than the user-agent string at play
here.

Regards,
Ben




  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-01 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-11 14:41 bug#45179: qutebrowser stuck on browser checks forever bdju via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-12-22 16:34 ` bug#45179: qutebrowser stuck at Cloudflare 'browser checks' Michael Rohleder
2021-01-23  4:58   ` ben--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-01-24  0:05     ` Mark H Weaver
2021-02-01 11:58       ` ben--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix [this message]
2021-04-06 21:41   ` bdju via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-04-06 21:56     ` bdju via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-04-07  9:55       ` Michael Rohleder

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