Re: [Code4Lib] Schema Validations at Library of Congress

From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nyob>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:30:58 -0400
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?

  :-D  I was wondering the same thing. —ELM
Received on Fri Jul 29 2016 - 15:31:02 EDT