On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf@free.fr> wrote:

Le 10/07/2014 21:29, Amir Ladsgroup a écrit :

> As ISO 8859 supports % character, this sounds like a reasonable solution
> for me. we need to just use urllib2 library to encode it.

That it is a bit hard to read though :-D The whole purpose is for site
operators to quickly find out who is behind the bot and work with them
to fix it / stop hammering the site. A human readable user-agent with
detailed point of contact for the bot operator will dramatically speed
up looking up the contact.

I disagree, decoding websites can decode username in just a second, and note that just a very low proportion of bot usernames needs to encoded (i.e. the encoded version is not the same as real one.)

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