sfeed

Simple RSS and Atom feed parser
git clone https://git.sinitax.com/codemadness/sfeed
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commit e96bdb644ae2f49125079e6218e2777caf633e1c
parent 44a4824eeba93a13511251a907179393f247c201
Author: Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>
Date:   Fri,  9 Jun 2023 14:44:34 +0200

README: improve note about CDNs and user-agent blocking

Prompted by a question from a user. Specificly mention reddit.com now blocks
clients which don't set the User-Agent header. It is specificly mentioned
because there is a reddit feed in the example sfeedrc.

Diffstat:

MREADME | 4++--


1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -679,8 +679,8 @@ additional metadata from the previous request.
 CDNs blocking requests due to a missing HTTP User-Agent request header
 
 sfeed_update will not send the "User-Agent" header by default for privacy
-reasons.  Some CDNs like Cloudflare don't like this and will block such HTTP
-requests.
+reasons.  Some CDNs like Cloudflare or websites like Reddit.com don't like this
+and will block such HTTP requests.
 
 A custom User-Agent can be set by using the curl -H option, like so: