[Labs-l] HTTP requests without a User Agent now blocked

Yuvi Panda yuvipanda at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 23:12:05 UTC 2014


Hello!

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/148133/ was just merged, and this
will return a 403 status code to any request hitting tools that does
not have a User Agent. This mirrors our prod setup, and should not
affect any client that behaves nicely already :)

Do poke me if you think this is a terrible idea! :)

Thanks!

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Yuvi Panda T
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