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Re: Handling Cloudfare issues

From: Dan Fandrich via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 14:38:27 -0700

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 11:29:16PM +0200, Mac-Fly via curl-library wrote:
> To rant a little: I don't now whats wrong with the internet these days
> and why such checks are required at all. I am sure they break a lot of
> applications like mine! (Rant off.)

You're preaching to the choir here.

> I am sure I am not the only one and now I am searching here for answers
> because I believe many curl users are affected, too. Please help me! :-)

There's a project called curl-impersonate that uses a patched version of curl
to exactly impersonate browsers in how they talk to sites; headers, cookies,
TLS negotiation flags, etc. That has worked for me to get around this problem,
but I'm sure it won't be long before even that won't be enough.

Dan
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Received on 2023-09-26