Bugs item #1865598, was opened at 2008-01-07 04:34 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by rotemliss You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=1865598...

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Status: Closed Resolution: Fixed

Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Unable to use framework when IP is blocked

Initial Comment: I am unable to log myself or my bot in when my IP is blocked. See traceback:

matt@oak:~/pywiki$ python login.py Checked for running processes. 1 processes currently running, including the current process. Password for user MonoBot on wikipedia:en: Logging in to wikipedia:en as MonoBot Traceback (most recent call last): File "login.py", line 277, in ? main() File "login.py", line 273, in main loginMan.login() File "login.py", line 220, in login if not self.botAllowed(): File "login.py", line 91, in botAllowed for linkedPage in botListPage.linkedPages(): File "/home/matt/pywiki/wikipedia.py", line 1473, in linkedPages thistxt = removeLanguageLinks(self.get(get_redirect=True), File "/home/matt/pywiki/wikipedia.py", line 600, in get self._contents = self._getEditPage(get_redirect = get_redirect, throttle = throttle, sysop = sysop, nofollow_redirects=nofollow_redirects) File "/home/matt/pywiki/wikipedia.py", line 707, in _getEditPage raise UserBlocked(self.site(), self.aslink(forceInterwiki = True)) wikipedia.UserBlocked: (wikipedia:en, u'[[en:Wikipedia:Registered bots]]') matt@oak:~/pywiki$ python login.py Checked for running processes. 1 processes currently running, including the current process. Password for user Monobi on wikipedia:en: Logging in to wikipedia:en as Monobi Traceback (most recent call last): File "login.py", line 277, in ? main() File "login.py", line 273, in main loginMan.login() File "login.py", line 220, in login if not self.botAllowed(): File "login.py", line 91, in botAllowed for linkedPage in botListPage.linkedPages(): File "/home/matt/pywiki/wikipedia.py", line 1473, in linkedPages thistxt = removeLanguageLinks(self.get(get_redirect=True), File "/home/matt/pywiki/wikipedia.py", line 600, in get self._contents = self._getEditPage(get_redirect = get_redirect, throttle = throttle, sysop = sysop, nofollow_redirects=nofollow_redirects) File "/home/matt/pywiki/wikipedia.py", line 707, in _getEditPage raise UserBlocked(self.site(), self.aslink(forceInterwiki = True)) wikipedia.UserBlocked: (wikipedia:en, u'[[en:Wikipedia:Registered bots]]')

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Comment By: Rotem Liss (rotemliss)

Date: 2008-01-17 09:08

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1327030 Originator: NO

As I noted in my second comment, the bot can now login even if the IP is blocked.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2008-01-17 03:03

Message: Logged In: NO

The aim of the block in this case is to prevent misuse of the IP, not to stop all use.

The actions being restricted by the block are 1/ use without logging in, or 2/ account creation, as I understand it. It's not intended to prevent use of an account that's pre-existing or sysop-created.

Agree that this is unusual :)

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Comment By: Rotem Liss (rotemliss) Date: 2008-01-07 08:43

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1327030 Originator: NO

However, you may mean only the IP address is blocked, not the user account. In such case, you get an exception without being actually blocked. To prevent that, I moved the check (if you are allowed to run the bot) after the actual login in r4824, so you only get the exception if your account is blocked.

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Comment By: Rotem Liss (rotemliss) Date: 2008-01-07 08:36

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1327030 Originator: NO

You shouldn't be able to use the bot at all while blocked - please ask a sysop why are you blocked and ask for unblocking. It may, however, be possible to enforce that only for actual edits, and only show a warning when getting pages. (Note that some older MediaWiki versions don't allow you to get the edit page while blocked, but this doesn't apply to Wikimedia sites.)

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