From: Ken Dobruskin <ken(a)dobruskin.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:00:02 +0100 (CET)
To: Jimbo Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com>
Subject: Forbidden access to wikipedia server
Greetings!
After reading the Wikipedia GFDL and policy on robots, I thought I'd try an
experiment, absolutely in line with said policies.
However when I tried to access the site from my server it failed with a 403.
User-agent: Python-urllib/1.15
IP address: 216.28.158.40
Sorry if I should be asking this to the mailing list, but I did see a word about access
issues to be addressed to a site admin.
Ken,
You're welcome to join the pywikipediabot project on sourceforge. You
may be able to use quite some code that has already been written.
Rob
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