So I discovered something interesting...

Ebay won't let you sign in if you're using an unusual useragent. It just doesn't deliver the signin page. (The source has some comment that
doesn't make much sense)

I wonder if this is because they send different sign in pages to
different browsers, but wouldn't you have some kind of catchall.

Given how easy it is to spoof your user agent, I don't really understand
why.

My user agent is a standard firefox useragent, but the OS is unusuall
(I'm using my freebsd fork) So I changed the OS in the user agent back to freebsd and it works...

Andrew

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Re: Ebay
By: apam to All on Fri Feb 19 2021 07:32 pm

So I discovered something interesting...

Ebay won't let you sign in if you're using an unusual useragent. It just doesn't deliver the signin page. (The source has some comment that
doesn't make much sense)

I wonder if this is because they send different sign in pages to
different browsers, but wouldn't you have some kind of catchall.

Given how easy it is to spoof your user agent, I don't really understand why.

My user agent is a standard firefox useragent, but the OS is unusuall
(I'm using my freebsd fork) So I changed the OS in the user agent back to freebsd and it works...

Andrew

Aesop: screw ebay.

There is a difference betweeb webservices having bugs and webservices being retarded by design. Webservices that are retarded by design deserve the middle finger.

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On 02/20/2021 10:32 am apam said...

So I discovered something interesting...

Ebay won't let you sign in if you're using an unusual useragent. It just doesn't deliver the signin page. (The source has some comment that doesn't make much sense)

Yes that is interesting, I guess to reduce the chance someone is using a bot or program to do something on their site?

I wonder if this is because they send different sign in pages to different browsers, but wouldn't you have some kind of catchall.

I would figure they would have a catchall or even a catch most.

Given how easy it is to spoof your user agent, I don't really understand why.

Yes, in Python requests its part of a session, so yeah why catch things when it's easy to spoof the user agent then.

My user agent is a standard firefox useragent, but the OS is unusuall (I'm using my freebsd fork) So I changed the OS in the user agent back to freebsd and it works...

I am glade you figured out a way around that at least. Still agree that all this is interesting and strange. (At the same time)

Andrew

Take Care,
Beanzilla

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On 19 Feb 2021 at 07:32p, apam pondered and said...

Ebay won't let you sign in if you're using an unusual useragent. It just doesn't deliver the signin page. (The source has some comment that
doesn't make much sense)

Weird... guess it must be some kind of counter hack protection thingy... I
made that last sentence up :)

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apam wrote to All <=-

So I discovered something interesting...

Ebay won't let you sign in if you're using an unusual useragent. It
just doesn't deliver the signin page. (The source has some comment that doesn't make much sense)

I wonder if this is because they send different sign in pages to
different browsers, but wouldn't you have some kind of catchall.

Given how easy it is to spoof your user agent, I don't really
understand why.

My user agent is a standard firefox useragent, but the OS is unusuall
(I'm using my freebsd fork) So I changed the OS in the user agent back
to freebsd and it works...

That is interesting! Course I got banned from eBay and they won't tell
me why and I can NEVER come back... and they won't tell me why...

I think it's because I'm pro-gun and they're not.




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