Harald Kliems<p>People who access US government website with tools like <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/curl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>curl</span></a>: Have you noticed getting errors recently? I have an <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a> package that retrieves National Transit Database data from transit.dot.gov, and it recently started erroring out. In my efforts to debug I came across mentions of certain websites trying to block tools like curl, resulting in similar errors. Maybe a reaction to increased <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DigiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigiPres</span></a> efforts?</p><p>Bug report: <a href="https://github.com/vgXhc/ntdr/issues/22" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/vgXhc/ntdr/issues/2</span><span class="invisible">2</span></a></p>