Andre Engels schrieb: > 1. Why is this User Agent getting this response? If I remember > correctly, this was installed in the early days of the pywikipediabot, > when Brion wanted to block it because it had a programming error > causing it to fetch each page twice (sometimes even more?). If that is > the actual reason, I see no reason why it should still be active years > afterward...
The default UA-Strings of many popular libraries (pythion, perl, java, php...) are blocked from accessing wikipedia. The idea is to force people to provide a descriptive UA string for their particular tool, so it can be blocked selectively when it breaks. Ideally, the UA string should give some way of contacting the operator, or at least the author. Good netizenship dictates: don't use default UA strings, use something unique and descriptive. Always, not only when accessing wikipedia. As to whythe content is served anyway: I don't know. May be a bug even. or it's intentional. Would be interesting to hear about this. -- daniel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
