DT4 - Change user-agent for news feeds

DEVONthink
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Good morning,

My DEVONthink instance is being blocked from downloading feeds.

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I already made sure, my Router IP (external) has changed. I can open all feeds in my browser. Using a different user agent would be the next step (guess) to mitigate that problem.

Having an option in DT4 to change the user-agent to different one would be quite helpful.

Cheers

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It seems highly improbable that a site blocks access to a RSS feed by user agent. Why would they do that – RSS is only text and does not require any user agent capabilities, afaik.

Which of the feeds does expose the error?

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These posts. That happen to work till 08.04. in DEVONthink.

Bloomberg is aggressively blocking bots. I download those feeds hourly. I will reduce the interval to once per day for now. Also got an error message withint DEVONthinks browser if I open the feed from within DEVONthink.

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I was able to reproduce this, the next beta should fix this.

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Thanks a lot!