[Bug 34745] New: ThingISBN broken: User agent blocked
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@lists.koha-community.org Reporter: oleonard@myacpl.org QA Contact: testopia@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? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. You are the assignee for the bug.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=34745 --- Comment #1 from Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> --- Created attachment 155436 --> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/attachment.cgi?id=155436&action=edit Bug 34745: FOR TESTING - ThingISBN broken: User agent blocked This patch corrects the LibraryThing URL to use https instead of http and adds a custom agent string to the initialization of LWP::UserAgent: "Mozilla/5.0" This is a test to confirm that the a different user agent string might allow the ThingISBN to work again. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. You are the assignee for the bug.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=34745 Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer@bsz-bw.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- See Also| |https://bugs.koha-community | |.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi | |?id=3030 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=34745 Fridolin Somers <fridolin.somers@biblibre.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |fridolin.somers@biblibre.co | |m --- Comment #2 from Fridolin Somers <fridolin.somers@biblibre.com> --- Currently opening in a browser shows a page : "Sorry, you have been blocked" -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. You are the assignee for the bug.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=34745 --- Comment #3 from Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> --- LibraryThing seems to have converted this service to an authenticated API. I understand why, but I'm curious why it was done with no apparent announcement. Also, "LibraryThing's APIs are currently disabled until further notice", posted 2022-05-16: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/LibraryThing_APIs -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. You are the assignee for the bug.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=34745 --- Comment #4 from Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> --- Okay, not exactly authenticated... Just requires the addition of a token. And it seems to be working at the moment. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=34745 Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jonathan.druart@gmail.com See Also| |https://bugs.koha-community | |.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi | |?id=40375 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
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