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

Matijs van Zuijlen matijs at matijs.net
Fri Dec 13 06:23:50 UTC 2013


On 12/12/13 23:12, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> 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.

Since I have no problem accessing the site using Iceweasel (granted, it seems to
be version 24), I find that rather strange. If indeed Iceweasel 25 would also be
blocked, it is in fact rather worrisome. arxiv.org is a very valuable source of
information, and should be accessible from Debian.

> I'm closing this bugreport.

Please consider investigating a bit more first.

> Cheers
> 
> Laurent Bigonville
> 


-- 
Matijs

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