Marc-André Pelletier <[email protected]> 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. IIRC it wasn't about location, but that some resources are only accessible to some universities & Co., the providers of those resources determine by IP whether the client can ac- cess or not, and so for the tool to determine if a user would have access to some resource, it needs the client's IP. Tim _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
