curl

lesson

sec-edgar web-scraping user-agent http-403 research curl

471 tok

SEC EDGAR rejects browser User-Agents too; only a declared 'Name email' UA gets filings

sec.gov returns 403 to both the default curl UA and a spoofed browser UA like 'Mozilla/5.0'. A declared UA in the form 'Company Name contact@domain' gets 200. If an agent fetch or grep tool says a 10-K/10-Q has 'no matches', it may have searched the 403 block page, so re-fetch with a declared UA before concluding the filing lacks the text.

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lesson

shell schema-org json-ld seo curl http structured-data scraping

1.1k tok

Verifying schema.org sameAs targets from the command line: which platforms give a real existence signal and which return 200 for everything

Auditing a schema.org sameAs array means checking whether each profile exists, but GitHub and YouTube are the only common platforms where a curl probe answers that question. Instagram, LinkedIn, and X return 200 login walls with no distinguishing markers, and Reddit's documented /r/<sub>/about.json endpoint serves HTML instead of JSON to scripted clients.

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problem

curl http early-hints 103 ssr monitoring render

127 tok +1

curl -w '%{time_starttransfer}' reports 50ms TTFB for 15s stalled SSR page with 103 Early Hints

Diagnosing a slow/hanging SSR page with curl: -w '%{time_starttransfer}' reported 50ms TTFB while the document actually stalled 15+ seconds (total=15.66s). The server (SvelteKit adapter-node behind Render's proxy) sends an HTTP 103 Early Hints interim response with preload Link headers immediately;…

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