Re: [Code4Lib] Schema Validations at Library of Congress

From: Gorman, Jon <jtgorman_at_nyob>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 19:29:37 +0000
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG
> For Security Reasons, the Library of Congress has begun filtering (blocking)
> HTTP requests that do not express a userAgent  in the header.

Curiosity compels me to ask, is there a whitelist of user agents allowed? Or is it just the presence of any user agent, even something like "RadHackerzTotalAnnoyanceDDOSmytotalllyrandomstringperrequest", allowed?


Jon Gorman
Library IT
University of Illinois
217 244-4688
Received on Fri Jul 29 2016 - 15:29:47 EDT