Why habrahabr blocks requests on an RSS feed based on user-agent information?

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Why habrahabr blocks requests on an RSS feed based on user-agent information?

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As an aggregator of RSS news I use akregator, but for about six months cannot get the tape. It is easy to verify that all the fault of User-Agent:

$ wget-U "Akregator/1.6.5; syndication" habrahabr.ru/rss/
--2010-09-15 17:52:52-- habrahabr.ru/rss/
Resolving habrahabr.ru... 212.158.166.234
Connecting to habrahabr.ru/212.158.166.234/:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... ^C

$ wget habrahabr.ru/rss/
--2010-09-15 17:53:06-- habrahabr.ru/rss/
Resolving habrahabr.ru... 212.158.166.234
Connecting to habrahabr.ru/212.158.166.234/:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/xml]
Saving to: `index.html'

[ <=> ] 38,878 71.1 K/s in 0.5 s 

2010-09-15 17:53:07 (71.1 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [38878]

PS in the first case the timeout

asked Mar 20, 2019 by frol | 16 views

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silentroach · Answer 1 · 2019-03-22T05:35:01+0000

Apparently, someone actively flood a website with a UserAgent containing the word akregator
And blocked not only the queries to rss, but everything on the server, apparently. And not blocked, but just slowed down, apparently — I start to swing at 5 bytes per second :)

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