On 16 February 2010 02:54, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@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.