[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] Request for Change of UserAgent

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 21/02/2019 00.20, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 02:30, 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.
> 
> Don't we already append "QGIS" to the end of the Mozilla/5.0 string?

(Firefishy/Grant in bcc)

Yes we have, but it is for OSM admins still to difficult to distinguish
apparently, AND it makes it more difficult that we say we are a browser
but do not act as one.

Maybe Jorge's proposal is best: for Nominatim and OSM servers we do
another UserAgent?

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde