Before starting my record attempt between Kemijärvi, Finland and Lagos, Portugal, people told me over and over it would break down in Germany. So much so that I even tried to re-but (pre-but?) some of the likely critique.
Now, having made the trip, and none of the total
Journalists researched it:
German: https://www.heise.de/news/Deutsche-Bahn-Keine-Auskunft-unter-Linux-11300742.html
English: https://itsfoss.com/news/deutsche-bahn-blocking-linux-users/
I tried their route planner a week ago and had the same problem.
Roger that. Thank you for the references!
It indeed seems to be header related.
In such case, it must be a bug/mistake, where an incorrect security configuration might have used a dictionary with a list of known suspicious User-Agent values, like the following:
- https://github.com/BryanMorgan/isbot/blob/main/fixtures/bots.txt
Let’s hope this case was not caused by something vibe-coded (LLM/“AI” generated)… or else, that would damage the trust I have to them much permanently…
I wish you safe, successful, and peaceful roads!