[QGIS-Developer] Request for Change of UserAgent

[Alessandro Pasotti]

Hi Richard,

Sounds fair to me, you can put the user agent string setting (
/qgis/networkAndProxy/userAgent ) in global_settings.ini, no need to
rebuild.

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/resources/qgis_global_settings.ini



On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 5:30 PM Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
wrote:

> Hi Devs, PSC,
>
> I had a short talk on IRC to 'Firefishy' the person who runs
> tile.openstreetmap.org CDN
> (in bcc, and see: http://irclogs.geoapt.com/qgis/%23qgis.2019-02-20.log)
>
> In short: he/osm has an issue with QGIS using 'Mozilla/5.0 ....' as
> User-Agent header, but QGIS NOT behaving as a true browser.
>
> He explains that the tricks to create their abuse filters do not work on
> QGIS because (for example) we do not honor cookies.
>
> I asked this earlier:
>
>
> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-Developer-Do-we-have-a-User-Agent-string-for-QGIS-td5360740.html
>
> But in my opinion now is time to change our default UserAgent.
>
> In the email thread above people were afraid that certain wms proxies
> would block us, but I think we should just try.
>
> IF we have proxy troubles, we can change the UserAgent per service? For
> example change the UserAgent only for OSM related services.
> Mmm, is it possible to do that via Python...
>
> I think that we should honor requests from a colleague-FOSS-service. He
> notes that they are exceeding 17000 tile requests per second at peaks...
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
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