Phil Boswell wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
I recently documented Wikipedia's X-Forwarded-For setup, at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/XFF_project
I would appreciate some help in advertising that meta page on Wikipedia, could you add links wherever it's relevant? Requests for adding proxies to the list can be made on the talk page, or to me by email.
So when someone is blocked because they are working through an open proxy, do we currently inform them of the admirable "XFF Project"?
Should we?
Most open proxies are not ones we could ever trust to provide reliable XFF headers. The feature is mostly useful for ISPs and other organizations that force their users to pass all HTTP traffic through their own (closed) proxies.
It might be useful to add a mention to the {{SharedIP}} template. To make the change effective, we'd also need to have a bot fix all the substed instances of that template.