On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Marco Schuster <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any list of those UAs or UA parts available? > I had this problem some time ago with my bot which used a custom UA > string and got access denied, so I changed its UA to Firefox as I had > no nerves to track down WHICH part of the UA triggered the filter.
Just change it to something like "YourBotName, run by Marco Schuster <[email protected]>". That will certainly avoid any filters, and provide the desired info. I don't know why the error page doesn't give this info already. The current message only confuses people and -- if they can figure out it's UA-based -- tempts them to mimic browser UA strings. That stands a good chance of getting your IP address blocked if it's noticed (and it's pretty easy to tell when a script is pretending to be a browser, if you look at the whole HTTP request). The error message is in SVN, but it's the same message provided for all errors. I don't know what sort of config would needed to be done to get a custom message for this error. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
