Some user agents are blocked, I had this problem when I tried to create a PHP script to access MediaWiki. You need to somehow change your user-agent setting.
On 05/05/07, David DeGroote David@degroote.com wrote:
Sorry, if this is the wrong forum for this question, if not can someone please refer me to the correct place...
I'm building a web site that contains small portions of Wikipedia articles. I have been using php curl to obtain the articles, caching them, and checking once a week for updates. I don't expect to reference more than a few hundred articles. This process broke a few weeks ago and I'm trying to determine why.
I've started getting the following message:
The Wikimedia Foundation servers are currently experiencing technical difficulties. [.... snip ...] If reporting this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the following details: Request: GET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_De_Mayo, from 64.202.165.131 via sq29.wikimedia.org
(squid/2.6.STABLE12) to () Error: ERR_ACCESS_DENIED, errno [No Error] at Fri, 04 May 2007 23:16:48 GMT
Because of the ERR_ACCESS_DENIED above, I'm concerned I've been doing this the wrong way and have gotten blocked. I would very much appreciate it if someone could tell me if this is the case.
Also, if I'm doing this the wrong way, can someone point me in the direction of the proper method?
A sample link to my site is: http://daysuntil.com/Rosh-Hashanah/index.html
Thanks very much, David DeGroote
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