Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote:

> No, he's using IE8 and it does send his User Agent header:
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0;
> GTB7.1; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR
> 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C)

> Are there any other reasons why someone would be rejected from the API?
> Getting imageinfo doesn't require a token, so I'm at a loss as to what
> is going on.
> [...]

It seems to be related to the User-Agent header:

| [tim@passepartout ~]$ wget --user-agent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; 
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB7.1; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 
3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C)" 
'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&titles=File%3ATrophy.png&prop=imageinfo'
| --2011-07-03 19:28:45--  
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&titles=File%3ATrophy.png&prop=imageinfo
| Resolving en.wikipedia.org... 91.198.174.232
| Connecting to en.wikipedia.org|91.198.174.232|:80... connected.
| HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
| 2011-07-03 19:28:45 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

| [tim@passepartout ~]$ wget --user-agent="abc" 
'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&titles=File%3ATrophy.png&prop=imageinfo'--2011-07-03
 19:28:47--  
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&titles=File%3ATrophy.png&prop=imageinfo
| Resolving en.wikipedia.org... 91.198.174.232
| Connecting to en.wikipedia.org|91.198.174.232|:80... connected.
| HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
| Length: 295 [text/xml]
| Saving to: 
`api.php?action=query&format=xml&titles=File:Trophy.png&prop=imageinfo'

| 
100%[===================================================================================================================>]
 295         --.-K/s   in 0.001s

| 2011-07-03 19:28:48 (386 KB/s) - 
`api.php?action=query&format=xml&titles=File:Trophy.png&prop=imageinfo' saved 
[295/295]

| [tim@passepartout ~]$

Tim


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