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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 144584] Akregator user-agent causes trouble with firewalls
From:       Leon Bottou <leon () bottou ! org>
Date:       2007-04-30 18:44:00
Message-ID: 20070430184400.17327.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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leon bottou org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Akregator does not fetch    |Akregator user-agent causes
                   |feeds (amd64 platform)      |trouble with firewalls



------- Additional Comments From leon bottou org  2007-04-30 20:43 -------
Solved the issue.

Akregator use the user-agent string 
"Akregator/xxx (librss remnants)"
and our firewall blocks http requests
whose user agent contains the string "gator".
I've been told it is a common setup
that is controlled by the provider of
our network hardware.

It worked before because, once upon a time, 
I manually patched the binary.
But this had popped out of my head.

Suggestion: configurable user-agent in akregator.
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