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Add the error code for missing user agent#386
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- allows to google the problem- Status 403: Forbidden
| @@ -386,6 +386,15 @@ Here's an example: | |||
| User-Agent: Awesome-Octocat-App | |||
| </pre> | |||
| The error without an user agent looks like this: | |||
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Could we please change this line to:
If you provide an invalidUser-Agent header, you will receive a403 Forbidden response:
Thanks for this,@ax3l. ✨ I've added comments with recommendations inline. If you'd like to add a commit with those changes, I'd be happy to merge this. |
Hi@jdennes, thanks for the feedback and the ✨ |
jdennes added a commit that referenced this pull requestNov 29, 2013
More thorough documentation of 403 response when User-Agent header is invalid.
bhuga pushed a commit that referenced this pull requestJan 19, 2015
Document abuse rate limit violations
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This requirement is somewhathidden in the documentation.
Besides that still residing problem, the pull allows to:
Status 403: Forbiddencould be caused byThe problem for e.g. PHP's cURL is, that theuser agent is not set by default.
Example: