-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Marco Schuster > 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 > ". That will certainly avoid any filters, and > provide the desired info. I used "HDBot API x.y (PHP $phpversion)" as UA. No idea what triggered the filters.
> 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. Anyone skilled enough to write a bot is skilled enough to find that out, IMO. Anyway, it should also be in the error message what part of the UA is forbidden. Marco -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iD8DBQFJe7C4W6S2GapJUuQRAvcgAJ9YY1N0ckE9DzqG21K45teAiG1QVQCfcGBJ hFtOQisDPnYlLyXjTwKaTTI= =iuTY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
