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#1 Yesterday 10:46:29
- leonshaw
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- Registered: 2012-01-11
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[SOLVED] Wiki returns HTTP 429 for specific user-agent
It's weird that ArchWiki returns HTTP 429 (too many requests) if User-Agent header contains "Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7"
$ curl -i -H 'user-agent: Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7' 'https://wiki.archlinux.org'
HTTP/2 429
server: nginx
date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:38:24 GMT
content-type: text/html
content-length: 162
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
<html>
<head><title>429 Too Many Requests</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>429 Too Many Requests</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>But normal for other user-agent string:
$ curl -i -H 'user-agent: Intel Mac OS X 10_15_8' 'https://wiki.archlinux.org'
HTTP/2 301
server: nginx
date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:40:59 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
cache-control: s-maxage=1200, must-revalidate, max-age=0
last-modified: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:27:27 GMT
location: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page
vary: Accept-Encoding, Cookie
x-cache: HIT
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-request-id: 44f17bcb7738615234ea0979
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preloadLast edited by leonshaw (Yesterday 11:44:37)
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#2 Yesterday 11:14:58
- gromit
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Re: [SOLVED] Wiki returns HTTP 429 for specific user-agent
This should not be the case anymore by now 
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#3 Yesterday 11:44:02
- leonshaw
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Re: [SOLVED] Wiki returns HTTP 429 for specific user-agent
It works now. Thanks.
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