On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 9:02 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Did the change go live? Yes! > Did the wikis fall over? > If they did, no one told me about it or complained about it in any of the places I looked. Not that I personally looked in extremely many places, but I'd have expected it to make it to this mailing list or Phabricator if something important broke. > Is there any ongoing analysis of the number of user agents (bots / > gadgets / etc) still not specifying continue method? > The log warnings I used before the change were removed as part of the change, since it doesn't seem particularly interesting anymore: we can't tell server-side whether a client is actually broken or just isn't using continuation at all. I can tell you that the gzip-compressed api-feature-usage log files were around 2.5G on June 1 (just before the final communication push), 1.1G on July 1 (just before the change), and only 46M on July 4 (after the change with the logging for this removed). Is there a common approach for gadgets to identify themselves to the > API - e.g. setting a custom user-agent? > Clients that cannot set the User-Agent header (such as gadgets and other scripts running in a browser) may use the Api-User-Agent header instead. If present, this header is prepended to the standard User-Agent header for purposes such as the api-feature-usage log and Special:ApiFeatureUsage. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
