[Labs-l] Full Text Reference Tool: Approved exposing of ip addresses to an external API

Marc-André Pelletier mpelletier at wikimedia.org
Thu May 29 15:16:51 UTC 2014


On 05/29/2014 10:49 AM, Jeremy Baron wrote:
> I'm interested in learning why the IP is needed at all though. It
> seems to me that doing it client-side may negate the original purpose
> of sending it? i.e. it can now be spoofed trivially

If I understood correctly, the point is to provide libraries local to
the asking user as the default search basis.

-- Marc




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