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When your #curl command line is rejected by the server but your browser still works, it might be because of TLS fingerprinting.

I blogged about this two years ago: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/09/02…

A roadsign showing two labels pointing in opposite directions. The top one says "browsers" pointing right. The lower one says "others" pointing left.
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Felix 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇺🇦
Felix 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇺🇦
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This is really annoying. I've also seen examples where #curl requests are working but requests via #nushell 'http get' are not.
#curl #nushell
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yeah, servers can of course do many other checks but the more HTTP level ones are so much easier to work around...
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Schamschula
Schamschula
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In a perfect world bots and scrapers would follow robots.txt and/or ai.txt and give the webmaster a link to see if they have a legitimate reason to grab all the content. But, alas...
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Jaanus Kase
Jaanus Kase
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“Let us come back to this topic in a few years and see where it went.”

It is exactly a few years 😀

So where has the topic gone?

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