Issue with the current default User-Agent used by lifreray portal https://liferay.dev/de/c/message_boards/find_thread?p_l_id=119785294&threadId=123547769 2026-04-18T02:13:31Z 2026-04-18T02:13:31Z Timo Wiedenmann https://liferay.dev/de/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=123549840 2025-08-21T14:32:26Z 2025-08-19T17:52:29Z

<p>I just use the RSS Widget in a page and there the issue came up, no custom code - thats why i created this &quot;bug report&quot; as this might become a problem in the future when maybe more RSS publishers block this default user agent.</p> <p>I was just curios and searched the source code for the user agent definition to provide helpful information.</p> <p>Sorry for the confusion!</p>

Timo Wiedenmann 2025-08-19T17:52:29Z David H Nebinger https://liferay.dev/de/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=123549688 2025-08-19T16:38:21Z 2025-08-19T16:38:16Z

<p>I didn't know if you were calling the HttpImpl using custom code (where you would have been able to set the user agent) or leveraging an OOTB Liferay widget. Glad you got it resolved though!</p>

David H Nebinger 2025-08-19T16:38:16Z Timo Wiedenmann https://liferay.dev/de/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=123549156 2025-08-19T16:00:40Z 2025-08-19T12:34:55Z

<p>Sorry, i didnt know about or find any place to set the an user-agent myself - where can i do this?</p> <p>​​​​​​​My issue was solved by the rss feed source - they unblocked the user agent for me.</p>

Timo Wiedenmann 2025-08-19T12:34:55Z David H Nebinger https://liferay.dev/de/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=123548381 2025-08-18T13:46:14Z 2025-08-18T13:46:13Z

<p>It only sets the default if you haven't set a user agent yourself.</p> <p>You didn't provide any other context, but is this a possibility?</p>

David H Nebinger 2025-08-18T13:46:13Z Timo Wiedenmann https://liferay.dev/de/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=123547768 2025-08-18T13:41:29Z 2025-08-17T13:45:00Z

<p>Hello,</p> <p>i ran into an issue as the current default user agent &quot;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv 11.0) like Gecko&quot; defined in com.liferay.portal.http.internal.HttpImpl is blocked for fetching RSS feed at one of my sources.</p> <p>A quick research showed, that this user agent represents Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1, ​​​​​​​using the user agent sting &quot;Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:141.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/141.0&quot; works fine.</p> <p>Maybe the default user agent should be updated to an actual user agent.</p> <p>Best regards, Timo</p>

Timo Wiedenmann 2025-08-17T13:45:00Z