I didn't realize that was a requirement for libraries (the library
allowed setting the UserAgent, but it didn't force it until now).
I have made that change and setting the UserAgent is now required.

Petr Onderka
[[en:User:Svick]]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Petr, make sure you require users to set their *User-Agent* string. Your

> library should not use any defaults.
>

> For the examples I would recommend this *User-Agent:*
>
> *MyCoolTool/1.1 (http://example.com/MyCoolTool/; MyCoolTool@example.com)
> LinqToWiki/1.0*

>
> See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page#Identifying_your_client
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Petr Onderka <gsvick@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to introduce LinqToWiki: a new library for accessing the
>> MediaWiki API from .Net languages (e.g. C#).
>> Its main advantage is that it knows the API and is strongly-typed,
>> which means autocompletion works on API modules, module parameters and
>> result properties and correctness is checked at compile time.
>>
>> More information is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Svick/LinqToWiki.
>>
>> Any comments are welcome.
>>
>> Petr Onderka
>> [[en:User:Svick]]
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