https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28884
--- Comment #4 from Derk-Jan Hartman <[email protected]> 2011-05-08 19:54:00 UTC --- There are two things that should be very much distinguished, some default user-agents are blocked due to abuse and apps should not use those user-agents, and two we want all bots to make themselves identifiable and contactable. Those are separate requirements, which are currently intermixed to make the rule 'set a "unique" user-agent. 2 Things from my point of view. 1: Is this an actual situation creating a problem at the moment, ergo are services being blocked because of this ? As far as I'm aware not, unless a service xmlhttprequest/webview thing is identifying itself as wget or perl, in which case that service should probably consider fixing their default useragent string anyways. 2: Having said that, if we have requirements that your bot should be identifiable, yet also have to account for user-agent's that cannot be changed, then it is probably a good idea indeed to set/define a standard for how that additional identification should be done in cases where the user-agent cannot be changed. >From is an option, but is limited to mailboxes, which might be less useful for us, since titles of tools can be much more useful for identification. I sort of like the X-Source idea. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
