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Old Oct 12, 2023 | 2:17 pm
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Originally Posted by Xyzzy
Some of the scraping tools have/had users provide their credentials -- and then they ran the queries from user owned devices to avoid detection. It's suspected (see above) that EF used UA to run queries. UA definitely requires some sort of login to get award result data. At least I need to log into my wn account to see any of it.
I never login to search awards at United. They always show a screen to login, but if you click the X, the search results appear anyway.
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