From f2f4c372c333688e4253976b00f1da5888b8ee22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Microchip <mlcrochip@proton.me>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:50:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] removed useragent header from requests to patch notes and
 news feed, which would error out the request

---
 src/news_test.py | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/ui.py        | 18 ++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 src/news_test.py

diff --git a/src/news_test.py b/src/news_test.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..a70afda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/news_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import json
+import hashlib
+import os
+import sys
+import ssl
+import re
+import subprocess
+import urllib.request
+from urllib.parse import urlsplit
+import shutil
+import stat
+import struct
+import time
+import math
+import threading
+import queue
+from functools import cache
+from pathlib import Path
+import urllib.error
+import requests 
+
+from . import config 
+from . import ui
+
+
+
+NEWS_FEATURED_URL = f"{config.SERVER}/forum/octonews.php?forum=2&mode=full"
+PATCHNOTES_URL    = f"{config.SERVER}/forum/octonews.php?mode=list&forum=4&limit=8"
+#print(NEWS_FEATURED_URL)
+#print(PATCHNOTES_URL)
+
+
+
+news = ui.fetch_featured_post()
+patch_notes = ui.fetch_patch_notes()
+print(patch_notes)
+print(news)
diff --git a/src/ui.py b/src/ui.py
index 957f257..d5851be 100644
--- a/src/ui.py
+++ b/src/ui.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from tkinter import filedialog
 import urllib.error
 from .app_log import LOG_QUEUE as _LOG_Q, log
 
-from .config import _relocate_legacy_data
+#from .config import _relocate_legacy_data
 from .net import *
 from .client import *
 from .torrent import *
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ from . import config
 
 # News tab: the latest announcement (forum 2, full post) fills the left panel,
 # the patch-notes list (forum 4) fills the right.
-NEWS_FEATURED_URL = f"{SERVER}/forum/octonews.php?forum=2&mode=full"
-PATCHNOTES_URL    = f"{SERVER}/forum/octonews.php?mode=list&forum=4&limit=8"
+NEWS_FEATURED_URL = f"{config.SERVER}/forum/octonews.php?forum=2&mode=full"
+PATCHNOTES_URL    = f"{config.SERVER}/forum/octonews.php?mode=list&forum=4&limit=8"
 NEWS_TIMEOUT      = 8
 NEWS_CACHE_TTL    = 300
 
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ FONT_BODY   = ("Segoe UI", 9)
 FONT_MONO   = ("TkDefaultFont", 10)
 FONT_VER  = ("TkDefaultFont", 8)
 
-NEWS_FEATURED_URL = f"{SERVER}/forum/octonews.php?forum=2&mode=full"
-PATCHNOTES_URL = f"{SERVER}/forum/octonews.php?mode=list&forum=4&limit=8"
+NEWS_FEATURED_URL = f"{config.SERVER}/forum/octonews.php?forum=2&mode=full"
+PATCHNOTES_URL = f"{config.SERVER}/forum/octonews.php?mode=list&forum=4&limit=8"
 NEWS_TIMEOUT = 8
 NEWS_CACHE_TTL = 300
 
@@ -108,7 +108,8 @@ def _format_news_date(iso: str) -> str:
 
 def fetch_patch_notes() -> list:
     """Patch-notes list → [{id, title, date, body, url?, author?}, …]"""
-    req = urllib.request.Request(PATCHNOTES_URL, headers={"User-Agent": UA})
+    #req = urllib.request.Request(PATCHNOTES_URL, headers={"User-Agent": config.UA})
+    req = urllib.request.Request(PATCHNOTES_URL)
     with secure_urlopen(req, timeout=NEWS_TIMEOUT) as r:
         data = json.load(r)
     items = data.get("items", [])
@@ -120,7 +121,8 @@ def fetch_patch_notes() -> list:
 
 def fetch_featured_post() -> dict | None:
     """Latest announcements-forum post → {id, title, author?, date, url, html}"""
-    req = urllib.request.Request(NEWS_FEATURED_URL, headers={"User-Agent": UA})
+    #req = urllib.request.Request(NEWS_FEATURED_URL, headers={"User-Agent": config.UA})
+    req = urllib.request.Request(NEWS_FEATURED_URL)
     with secure_urlopen(req, timeout=NEWS_TIMEOUT) as r:
         data = json.load(r)
     return data if isinstance(data, dict) and data.get("id") else None
@@ -215,7 +217,7 @@ class OctoUpdaterApp(tk.Tk):
         # Move a pre-1.3 config/cache from beside the .exe into the per-user
         # data dir before anything reads them, so first-run detection and
         # load_config() below see the relocated files (see _relocate_legacy_data).
-        _relocate_legacy_data()
+        #config._relocate_legacy_data()
 
         # Detect first run before anything writes the config.
         self._first_run  = not os.path.exists(config.CONFIG_FILE)