On 16 February 2010 02:54, Domas Mituzas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > from now on specific per-bot/per-software/per-client User-Agent header is > mandatory for contacting Wikimedia sites. > > Domas
Looks OK to me. But this is the type of decission that often break existing stuff somewhere on the internet. With user-agent, I can imagine some overzealot firewall or anonymization service removing it. But you can always use the X's strategy: break something and way 6 years, If no one is angry seems no one was using the feature. t...@localhost:~$ telnet en.wikipedia.org 80 Trying 91.198.174.2... Connected to rr.esams.wikimedia.org. Escape character is '^]'. GET / Please provide a User-Agent header Connection closed by foreign host. -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
