Re: Anubis challenge on texlive.info pretest mirror breaks TeX Live Utility

Hi Adam,

On Thu, 2026-02-19 at 19:42 -0800, Adam R. Maxwell via tex-live wrote:
> No idea how tlmgr bypasses the bot checker. I suppose I'll have to
> learn, as the enshittification of the internet continues apace.

The default configuration of Anubis only blocks requests with
"Mozilla/5.0" in their user-agent [1], so tlmgr doesn't need to do
anything specific to bypass it. But perhaps Norbert has adjusted the
configuration for texlive.info, in which case he might have to explictly
whitelist TLU.

Thanks,
-- Max

[1]: Which covers not just Firefox, but _all_ browsers due to weird
     historical reasons

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_header#Format_for_human-operated_web_browsers