GNU bug report logs - #54246
29.0.50; EWW not showing images in some websites

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: payas <relekarpayas <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2022 17:42:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 29.0.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #40 received at 54246 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: payas <relekarpayas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 54246 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54246: 29.0.50; EWW not showing images in some websites
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2022 17:42:14 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> I think it could be interesting to see whether some other mixture of
> headers in the requests gets beyond the Cloudflare block -- they do,
> after all, handle most of the traffic that goes over the Internet now,
> so we'll be seeing a lot of these breakages.

And this turned out to be a real bug -- we were sending an empty header
needlessly, and this triggered Cloudflare's anti-attack software.  I've
now fixed this in Emacs 29.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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