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Bug 23447 - Konqueror erroneously identified at a script and denied access to Wikipedia.
Konqueror erroneously identified at a script and denied access to Wikipedia.
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
PC Linux
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2010-05-09 02:43 UTC by Alex Bokov
Modified: 2010-05-09 03:20 UTC (History)
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Description Alex Bokov 2010-05-09 02:43:22 UTC 
I am using Konqueror 3.5.10 a my main web browser on Kubuntu 8.04.4 (Hardy). As of recently, whenever I try to follow a link to Wikipedia (examples: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ordinal or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/core_duo) I get a screen that is blank except for the following message:

"Scripts should use an informative User-Agent string with contact information, or they may be IP-blocked without notice."

Talk about user-hostile. I don't expect the world to support conqueror, but at least don't deliberately block it. And maybe rephrase the error message to be more informative and less confrontational?

PS: It gets weirder. I just followed a link to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent and that worked. What the? This bug is specific to only certain search terms?!
Comment 1 OverlordQ 2010-05-09 03:20:17 UTC 
The error message contains all the relavent information. It has nothing to do with not supporting Konqueror, it has to do with either your version of Konqueror not sending a User-Agent or somebody upstream of you filtering it out, fix this and you'll be fine
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