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  2. BCLOUD-3743

Document that Bitbucket only challages with 401 if User-Agent contains substring curl (BB-3758)

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      If requesting a page on bitbucket which requries authentication, for example download files in a private repo, bitbucket.org responds with a 401 status ONLY if the user-agent is curl (there may be other too, but not anyother that I've been able to determine).

      In my case, I was writing some C# code to retreive files from the download section, which works fine using curl in scripts, but did not work from C#.
      Using fiddler to create requests, I noticed that when duplicating the request from curl - it worked.
      And only when adding the User-Agent header with a value which contains the substring "curl", bitbucket.org responds with a 401 status.

      As I cannot authenticate without the 401 status (.NET implementation), I was able to resolve this by adding the string "curl" in the User-Agent header.

      I understand that this is probably intentional, as a web browser should be redirected to the login page via a 302 response. But it should at least be documented, or available via the API. I have not been able to find any information about this in the documentation (even though all examples are curl examples...)

      Regards, Adam Brengesjö

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