On Sun, 24 Jan 2021, Mark H. Weaver wrote:
> ben--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> writes: > >> I'm also having similar issues accessing gitlab.com with IceCat. >> Installing the User Agent Switcher and setting to "Linux / Firefox 82" >> fixed this for me. >> >> For context I also tried starting IceCat up in safe mode and switching >> tracking protection back to "standard", but no good. The issue appears >> to be that Cloudflare are essentially blocking niche user agents. > > The IceCat package in Guix sends the same user-agent string as the > 'firefox-esr' package in Debian. I've done a little more testing for interest sake - I still think CloudFlare are at fault here. If use a private tab and attempt to access a private GitLab repository I get stuck at the CloudFlare "checking your browser message". Here's the IceCat default user-agent string: "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0" If I install User Agent Switcher and do the same thing, it works. The only difference in the user-agent string is the version number: "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:82.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/82.0" If I try the same on Firefox ESR on Debian Buster, it works no problem, but as Mark says, the Firefox user-agent string matches exactly to IceCat: "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0" That suggests to me that there's more than the user-agent string at play here. Regards, Ben
