On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Antoine Musso <hashar+...@free.fr> wrote:
> Le 10/07/2014 21:29, Amir Ladsgroup a écrit : > > As ISO 8859 supports % character, this sounds like a reasonable solution > > for me. we need to just use urllib2 library to encode it. > > That it is a bit hard to read though :-D The whole purpose is for site > operators to quickly find out who is behind the bot and work with them > to fix it / stop hammering the site. A human readable user-agent with > detailed point of contact for the bot operator will dramatically speed > up looking up the contact. > > > I disagree, decoding websites can decode username in just a second, and note that just a very low proportion of bot usernames needs to encoded (i.e. the encoded version is not the same as real one.) Best > -- > Antoine "hashar" Musso > > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > Pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > -- Amir
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