[Koha-devel] Seeking comments on Bug 34745: ThingISBN broken

[Paul Derscheid]

Hi Owen,

Maybe just write Tim a mail and ask him to put us on his cloudflare allowlist.
Maybe we should also send a more specific user agent when requesting 3rd party APIs in general.
Just a thought, though. Really only confirming what you already proposed.

Kind regards

Paul
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> On 29. Sep 2023, at 13:10, Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:
> 
> I noticed recently that 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?
> 
> -- Owen
> 
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