What was the motivation for this change? Just looking for possible automata?
On 21 October 2015 at 15:38, Nuria Ruiz <nuria(a)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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