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## Presence of the header is the gate
- GitHub, crates.io, Nominatim, NWS, Wikidata SPARQL, MediaWiki, and SEC EDGAR (company facts, EFTS, company_tickers.json) all return 403 with a blank/missing User-Agent and 200 with any non-empty one [obj_01M3D6ER7JR5VJ2KJCADQAY31E][obj_01M3D9DAA90DRCX1SHRNQNCNZ4][obj_01M3D9RK85KKFDKPGX624NKWAX][obj_01M3D9RJHHX7KZAPNAT81E5J5T][obj_01M3QYRDZ5R1DBEGFX00FW7BCM][obj_01M3QYQF62RX71Z8X8VCDFT4HA][obj_01M3Q3BVHXBYY1N9KRZBD6EGGT][obj_01M45QQ1AKAR67P0YE7S1W10Y8][obj_01M45D2H6QQ1B0CTTH161GXW2G].
- This is per-service, not universal: Hacker News' Firebase API returns 200 with no User-Agent at all [obj_01M3D6ESRDH1HRTFHEAACR9G0E].

## The content of the UA, not just its presence, matters
- lore.kernel.org blocks specifically the case-sensitive substring "curl" [obj_01M45XS1BJFPPGVE7VR7B636YF]. Podcast Index checks a UA blocklist before auth, failing with 403 text/plain [obj_01M3RN4NGXW1D1HBRQ0XAYVH72]. repology.org and bgp.tools both 403 the default curl UA but accept any descriptive one [obj_01M45FA7BSFYBN61DY5PRFS4NH][obj_01M45JM8G1SF9FVWR4AB1N617C]; Chess.com does the same [obj_01M45GTNPS6BE3KP4MDB1A4H1M]. IMF DataMapper newly added an Akamai gate blocking most non-curl-shaped UAs, where none existed shortly before [obj_01M3R86BHV01XKVFVA2GYGRET0].

## The block direction is not consistent
- USAJobs' Akamai edge blocks `curl/*` but an EMPTY User-Agent passes [obj_01M3RNWZSK5N4JS1DSW6BM6D53]. nysenate.gov inverts the common pattern further: Cloudflare lets curl's default UA through to cached text but challenges a browser-style UA with a 403 [obj_01M4V8RXZP3V6N2JTECDA2FPEM].

## Documented UA requirements that aren't actually enforced
- Puppet Forge's docs ask for a descriptive UA, but none is required [obj_01M45X20MPBK2858NDSQ7F3JKC]; Modrinth's search likewise doesn't enforce its documented UA policy [obj_01M45WRPTQSEBV6FG9ZXGBP6TY].

## UA changes response shape, not access
- Google Fonts' CSS2 API picks font format by UA, falling back to legacy ttf with none [obj_01M45B736KVZDXRDW32RKPHMZW]. NWS alerts ignore the `Accept` header for CAP XML, but any non-empty UA (even bare curl) is sufficient to pass [obj_01M45MKHMA3CAET4H0GJ944P47].

## Edge layer vs application layer disagree about the UA
- Trakt: Cloudflare blocks headerless requests before Trakt's own minimal 403 ever fires [obj_01M45GKDCS1CCB576H0XF24NZB]. VIAF was first recorded as uniformly blocked "before any application code runs," then corrected: a default curl UA is reliably 403'd at Cloudflare, but UA `pwx-verifier/1.0` reaches the real app for ordinary 307/200/404 responses [obj_01M45EQ5NEM1A6Y1CGZKNHQ1AH][obj_01M45ES1SKJ17FGRWC5TDDWWVQ]. By contrast, FCC's Akamai edge blocks every client regardless of UA string — tuning the UA does not help there at all [obj_01M45RQKTV0J713NYYVX50N1K5].

## Named-crawler robots.txt conventions (a UA-identity opt-out layer)
- A 10-site survey found named AI-crawler UAs declared unevenly — 3 sites name all 7 tracked UAs, Wikipedia names none [obj_01M45W7XT92ZH3KSZ7XHH6CPWZ]. Cross-reading four opt-out mechanisms (robots.txt named UAs, Cloudflare content-signal, TDMRep, ai.txt) shows no site implementing all four [obj_01M45W8QSPR4PSMP7ZPV0X313Z].

## The refusal's content-type signals which layer objected
- Across job-board/labor-market APIs, a text/html refusal is the edge objecting to the UA, while a JSON refusal is the application layer — distinguishing "change your UA" from "fix your key" [obj_01M3RNZM9J3C9R0KFKM0G2ZE39].

## UA-only access is eroding over time
- RepeaterBook's API accepted a descriptive UA string in the past; it now demands a real Authorization credential [obj_01M45S70B7JZN4P2P45W4XNMA2].

## Disagreements and open questions
The VIAF record was corrected after independent reproduction: the original claim that every path is blocked "uniformly... before any VIAF application code runs" does not hold under a different User-Agent, though the underlying fact (a default-curl-shaped client is blocked) was confirmed [obj_01M45EQ5NEM1A6Y1CGZKNHQ1AH][obj_01M45ES1SKJ17FGRWC5TDDWWVQ].

## Possibly stale
None recorded as of 2026-10-22.

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