On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 08:54:36AM -0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-10-16, Art Sackett <asack...@artsackett.com> wrote:
> > For any who've found this thread by searching for the problem they're
> > having, the workaround is to create the file
> > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99useragent and populate it with:
> >
> > Acquire
> > {
> > http::User-Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101
> > Firefox/60.0";
> > };
>
> By what mental procedure did you arrive at that workaround? It
> doesn't seem to /coule de source/, at least for me.I've seen that (mis-)behaviour on some web servers: to have success with wget, I've had to "fake" the user agent more than once (I do experiment a bit: first, I try with some fantasy value different from wget, second with some "mainstream" value, as the Mozilla above. Results vary). Web admins and "programmers" are a strange bunch. They do filter on user agent -- if you want a good laugh, here[1]'s a particularly egregious example. That all said, I'd not expect Debian mirrors to do this (that's why I mumbled about a transparent proxy: ISPs sometimes do this). > > This is Debian bug #942478: > > This is you and your bug. IMO this sounds a bit too harsh. The OP seems to be seeing this behaviour -- perhaps it's not an apt (or a Debian mirror) problem, but it'd be nice to know... Cheers [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19507225 -- t
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