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But how can you be sure that the content you get in a browser is the same content that you get with curl?

Serving different content based on the user agent header or similar is not exactly difficult.

And there are even [sneakier ways](https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...) to identify if you're curling into bash.



That’s so cool




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