GNU bug report logs - #59546
qutebrowser and icecat stuck in infinite browser checks (cloudflare) on applicable sites

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From: "bdju" <bdju <at> tilde.team>
To: "Maxim Cournoyer" <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 59546 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, GNU Debbugs <control <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#59546: qutebrowser and icecat stuck in infinite browser checks (cloudflare) on applicable sites
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:56:59 -0600

On Fri Dec 16, 2022 at 7:31 AM CST, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> Thanks for sharing.  It looks like we have something to investigate.
> It's perhaps related to the way we build qtwebengine; do these sites
> work in ungoogled-chromium for you?

Just tested in ungoogled-chromium, and yes it seems both gitlab and
livechart worked fine, passing the brower checks quickly on my Guix
System machine. Very interesting.
I tried copying the user agent from ungoogled-chromium (similar but
slightly different from the qutebrowser default) but it didn't seem to
make a difference.

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