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by stickfigure 1326 days ago
Then you can ask the customer. You have a relationship with them.

Akamai uses user-agent strings in its Bot Manager. They see what specific version of what browser you're running, then check certain characteristics of the request (eg header order) against a database. That isn't going to work anymore.

And good riddens. It makes the internet brittle and isn't especially hard to work around anyway.