"Firefox" user-agent triggers IDS alerts
Bug #982999 reported by
Stephane Chazelas
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Realtime Sunlight Wallpaper |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hiya,
I can see this tool does some "curl --user-agent Firefox http://
That does trigger an alert with some network intrusion detection systems because the "Firefox" user agent has been known to be associated with trojan malware (see http://
It would probably be better to use a specific user agent like "Real-time Sunlight Wallpaper/0.4.2", or leave curl's default.
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