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> Manager: And we can just prevent it with an extra regex rule in the front end code? > Engineer Alice: ... Yes. irrepressibly existential sigh

The answer is "no", though. This exchange sounds like the decision was between "fixing it cleanly" and "fixing it with a hack", which is roughly equivalent with fixing the problem at the expense of technical debt. But this change does not fix the problem at all.



I have to agree that the answer is no.

curl -A "anything but Curl" x.x.x.x

the problem has not been fixed by a user agent string.




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