[Koha-bugs] [Bug 34745] New: ThingISBN broken: User agent blocked

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=34745

            Bug ID: 34745
           Summary: ThingISBN broken: User agent blocked
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Architecture, internals, and plumbing
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: oleonard at myacpl.org
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org

Requests to LibraryThing's ThingISBN service are being blocked. Koha tries to
access a url like this:

https://www.librarything.com/api/thingISBN/0439139600

...which opens fine in a browser, but triggers the response "WARNING: URL
Request Failed 403 Forbidden" when Koha tries it.

Koha is currently sending the user agent "libwww-perl/6.52" and if I use
Firefox's developer tools to load the page with that set as a custom user agent
I get a CloudFlare-generated "access denied" message.

I see other CloudFlare customers complaining about this, so it may just be a
default. Should we ask LibraryThing to change their configuration? Should we
send a less obtrusive user agent with the request?

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