On 1 September 2015 at 12:41, Chad <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:24 AM Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Is the
>> blocking of requests absent a user agent simply happening at a
>> 'higher' stage (in mediawiki itself?) and so not registering with the
>> varnishes,
>
>
> No, it's not done at the application level.
>
>
>> or is sending an /empty/ header simply A-OK?
>>
>>
> Shouldn't be, unless the policy changed...

Well I'm looking at millions of requests from
API-users-who-I-am-not-big-fans-of[0] with a blank UA sooo..

[0] actual term far more expletive-laden than this

>
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