On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:00:48PM +0100, Roan Kattouw wrote:
> As of Monday Feb 15, passing a User-Agent header is mandatory for
> *all* HTTP requests to Wikimedia sites. This includes the API.

If you want to thank someone for the change being made 2 days before the
announcement, go find Domas.

> Ideally, your User-Agent header should identify your client in such a
> way that Wikimedia staff are able to figure out who to contact if your
> client is somehow engaging in disruptive behavior.

Do they pay any attention to the HTTP "From" header defined in RFC 2616
section 14.22 for exactly that purpose?[1]


[1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.22

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