I have also filled out a BRFA on enwiki to replace all links, to avoid bot mess ups (I know there are some out there that will).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/ SoxBot_10 On May 28, 2008, at 4:32 PM [May 28, 2008 ], Marco Schuster wrote: > Platonides schrieb: >> River Tarnell wrote: >>> Dan Collins: >>>> At any time in the near future will the old ts.wikimedia.de and >>>> tools.wikimedia.de (or whatever they really are) become >>>> invalidated? >>> tools.wikimedia.de will always be valid, but it will probably >>> turn into a >>> redirect to the new domain. >> >> It is now turned into a redirect. Breaking one of my bots, btw. Check >> your code for any url pointing at the old toolserver dns, as bots >> aren't >> too good at following redirects. > Depends on how good your framework is written; mine for example checks > for Location: headers, but I dunno how the Perl/python/whatever libs > handle this. > > Marco > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l
