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Jitsi, Bowser, and IceCat's user agent string

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From: bill-auger <bill-auger <at> peers.community>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: 58011 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Michael McMahon <michael <at> fsf.org>
Subject: bug#58011: Jitsi, Bowser, and IceCat's user agent string
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 23:55:29 -0400

On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 23:49:16 -0400 bill-auger wrote:
> there is more to it than the user-agent string

i could have explained that better - especially if you want to
continue spoofing the user-agent, this is what youd need to mind

the likely cause of the rejection, is because the user-agent
string specifies "Linux", while these config vars specify
Windows; so cloudflare considers the browser to be bogus or
otherwise insane

> -pref("general.oscpu.override", "Windows NT 6.1");
> -pref("general.platform.override", "Win32");

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