AWKWARD ZOMBIE

The Awkward Zombie feed has a misconfiguration where it actively discriminates against certain feed readers based on their user agent string. For example Safari, Firefox and Opera can all fetch the feed just fine, but Vienna gets 403 forbidden returned from the server.

Please change it so that all user agents are able to access the feed. I'd really like to be able to get the comic feed.

Yeah, that doesn't help the problem Angie.

Does it just discriminate against Vienna? Or against any other browsers that are not Firefox, Opera, etc.

Either way, AZ updates every sunday night/monday morning, so you can just check the website.

Anything that is not a popular web browser is being blocked, which is a self defeating behavior for a feed. Oddly enough, I can look at the homepage in Vienna, but only the feed is blocked.

And I read too many webcomics to reliably keep up with comics that don't have working feeds.

Well, another thing is, it wasn't actually made by Katie, it was made by another forum member who doesn't frequent the forum. I'd help you if I could but I don't know much about feeds.

Wait, are you talking about the user-made feed or this one? If it's the latter I'll talk to Chris about it.

On another note, I don't use RSS feeds so I have no idea if the one up there works right (or works at all).

http://www.awkwardzombie.com/awkward.php, the official feed, is the one that is broken. It simply needs to be changed so that it doesn't block any clients.

I'm really crap at feeds and feeding, etc, but http://page2rss.com/page?url=www.awkwardzombie.com/ works for me better than the feed on the main page does. Try it.

Does Viena have a plugin to change User Agent? If it does change it to Firefox or Chrome not IE because IE is a turd sandwich.

I don't think it's plugin API will let developer edit the User Agent string. The main thrust of the plugins so far are to add articles to social networks.

Well, isn't there another way to change User Agents?