What was the motivation for this change? Just looking for possible automata?
On 21 October 2015 at 15:38, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote: > Team: > > As of today incoming request data includes an extra bit of information on > the X-analytics header. > > If an incoming request to any wikipedia project had no cookies whatsoever it > will be tagged with nocookie=1. A requests without any cookies could > correspond to a fresh browser session, a user browsing with cookies disabled > or, most likely, a bot request as most bots will not accept cookies. We > *might* be able to use this setting as a cheap proxy to quantify bot > traffic. > > > Documentation about this change can be found here: > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/X-Analytics > > > Thanks, > > Nuria > > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > -- Oliver Keyes Count Logula Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
