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 _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
