On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Derrick Coetzee <dc(a)moonflare.com> wrote:
'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0' .
"\n" .
Do not lie in your User-Agent. If your script causes any significant
load, and a Wikimedia sysadmin notices it pretending to be a browser,
they wouldn't be able to do much except block the entire toolserver
until we're able to figure out which script is causing the problem,
and disable it. Use a descriptive User-Agent, preferably one that
gives contact information.
I don't have any suggestions as to your actual problem, though. I
don't see a script to populate rev_len in maintenance/, so I guess
someone would have to write one.