On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Is there a common approach for gadgets to identify
themselves to the
API - e.g. setting a custom user-agent?
Clients that cannot set the User-Agent header (such as gadgets and other
scripts running in a browser) may use the Api-User-Agent header instead. If
present, this header is prepended to the standard User-Agent header for
purposes such as the api-feature-usage log and Special:ApiFeatureUsage.
Only very few do so unfortunately.. We should see if we can figure out some
strategy to encourage that a bit more... Add a 'user-agent' option into the
JS mediawiki.Api lib for instance ? log if people then not use it ? Might
be a bit 'loud'. Other ideas ?
DJ