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

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Thu, 12 Dec 2013 23:12:46 +0100,
Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org> a écrit :

> Le Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:22:08 +0100,
> Matijs van Zuijlen <matijs at matijs.net> a écrit :
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I have a similar error when accessing this site with iceweasel 25. I'm
> not sure we can do anything for this.
> 
> I'm closing this bugreport.

Correction, the site is working for me with both iceweasel 25 and
epiphany...