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I was reminded of the great #Cisco security fix of 2019

#curl

a config file showing how it returns a 403 error if the user agent contains the word "curl"
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OMG, did they really pull that off? That's... amazing 😂
I can well believe it, from the company that once broke their website by somehow removing every lowercase "t" from their HTML... Though that was about a decade earlier!
@bagderBut you see, `curl -A "anonymous" ` is now considered unauthorized access of a computer system and is illegal according to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.