Bug#732037: epiphany-browser: Appears to trigger arxiv.org's malignant robot detection

[Matijs van Zuijlen]

Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 3.10.1-1
Severity: normal

If I access any of arxiv.org's pages using Epiphany, access is denied with the
following text:

  Access Denied

  Sadly, your client "Mozilla/5.0 (Unknown; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/538.7
  (KHTML, like Gecko) Chromium/25.0.1349.2 Chrome/25.0.1349.2 Safari/538.7
  Debian/unstable (3.10.1-1) Epiphany/3.10.1" violates the automated access
  guidelines posted at arxiv.org, and is consequently excluded.

  If you believe this determination to be in error, see
  http://arxiv.org/denied.html for additional information.

I have asked the arxiv.org admin to unblock access, and this was apparrently
done, but upon attempting access again, it was immediately denied.

I have no problem accessing arxiv.org using Chromium or Iceweasel.

The page mentioned in the error text gives the presence of 'accelerator' or
pre-fetching software as a possible cause, but I'm not aware of the presence of
such functionality in Epiphany.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                    1.7.4-1
ii  epiphany-browser-data       3.10.1-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme            3.10.0-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic   3.10.1-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas   3.10.0-1
ii  iso-codes                   3.49-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                 2.10.0-2
ii  libavahi-client3            0.6.31-3
ii  libavahi-common3            0.6.31-3
ii  libavahi-gobject0           0.6.31-3
ii  libc6                       2.17-97
ii  libcairo-gobject2           1.12.16-2
ii  libcairo2                   1.12.16-2
ii  libgcr-base-3-1             3.10.1-1
ii  libgcr-ui-3-1               3.10.1-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0          2.28.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.38.1-2
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-8        3.10.1-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                  3.10.2-1
ii  libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0  2.3.2-1
ii  libnotify4                  0.7.6-1
ii  libnspr4                    2:4.10.2-1
ii  libnss3                     2:3.15.3-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0              1.36.0-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0         1.36.0-1
ii  libsecret-1-0               0.15-2
ii  libsoup2.4-1                2.44.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0                3.8.2-1
ii  libwebkit2gtk-3.0-25        2.3.2-1
ii  libwnck-3-0                 3.4.7-1
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxml2                     2.9.1+dfsg1-3
ii  libxslt1.1                  1.1.28-2

Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20130906
ii  evince           3.10.0-1
ii  yelp             3.10.1-1

epiphany-browser suggests no packages.

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