Trac Not Working

[Joshua Root]

On 28/5/2025 07:02, Fred Wright wrote:
> It looks like it's a new browser pickiness issue.  I tried four 
> different browsers on my 10.9 system, and none worked.  The latest 
> Chrome on 11.x+ worked, though not earlier Chrome versions.  But 
> TenFourFox on a G4 running 10.5 worked (and I was even able to get 
> authenticated access via GitHub).  So it's not a "too old" issue; it's 
> just a "let's be obnoxious" issue.
> 
> I was able to get around it via User-Agent spoofing, though it took 
> multiple attempts to get a ticket display working again, probably due to 
> browser cacheing.

If it's what I think it is, it's actually a "trying to block abusive 
crawler bots that ignore robots.txt" issue. They were overloading Trac 
to the point of being almost unusable, and many of them use a User-Agent 
string that matches an old Chrome version.

If you let Rainer or Clemens know your User-Agent string, they might be 
able to add an exception.

- Josh