On 16 February 2010 02:54, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi!
from now on specific per-bot/per-software/per-client User-Agent header is mandatory for
contacting Wikimedia sites.
Domas
Looks OK to me. But this is the type of decission that often break
existing stuff somewhere on the internet. With user-agent, I can
imagine some overzealot firewall or anonymization service removing it.
But you can always use the X's strategy: break something and way 6
years, If no one is angry seems no one was using the feature.
tei@localhost:~$ telnet
en.wikipedia.org 80
Trying 91.198.174.2...
Connected to
rr.esams.wikimedia.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /
Please provide a User-Agent header
Connection closed by foreign host.
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