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

[Nyall Dawson]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 at 04:38, Jonathan Moules
<jonathan-lists at lightpear.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> I don't think without more information it's clear precisely what QGIS
> should change to help them?
>
> Indeed, personally I'm still not sure what the current problem is for
> them. I get that they have some over-users of their service and need to
> curtail this (a very tricky problem), but what's their current solution
> and how does a user-agent change help it?
>
> I'd suggest against QGIS using different user-agents for destinations as
> was suggested earlier in the thread because down that road lies madness
> (it's a highly opaque thing that /will/ bite people as they try and
> debug issues).

My main concern is possible regressions if we flip to a
"less-standard" user agent. It's highly likely that there's servers
out there which block requests based on user agent whitelists, so by
changing the user agent across the whole app we'd potentially be
blocking access to these servers.

Nyall

>
> Cheers,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> On 23/02/2019 11:17, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> > For what I understand, they use some cookie-based trick to help maintain
> > their QOS (and then to make it possible to throttle a very demanding web
> > application?).
> >
> > This made sense to me. Also because I really do not envy maintainers of
> > such services: it is hard to keep up such free services (as an example
> > (see irc log) he mentioned that certain transportation software started
> > to poll the reverse geocoding every second in every car). I think it's
> > pretty important for us to have OSM, and be helpfull to them.
> > But if Firefishy/Grant is willing to give more details (he is in bcc)
> > that would be great.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
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