What was the motivation for this change? Just looking for possible automata?

On 21 October 2015 at 15:38, Nuria Ruiz <nuria@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Team:
>
> As of today incoming request data includes an extra bit of information on
> the X-analytics header.
>
> If an incoming request to any wikipedia project had no cookies whatsoever it
> will be tagged with nocookie=1. A requests without any cookies could
> correspond to a fresh browser session, a user browsing with cookies disabled
> or, most likely, a bot request as most bots will not accept cookies. We
> *might* be able to use this setting as a cheap proxy to quantify bot
> traffic.
>
>
> Documentation about this change can be found here:
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/X-Analytics
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nuria
>
>
>

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