Re user agents, 2010 was a long time ago from an ops perspective. The need for a user agent is no doubt as strong as in the 2010 edict from Domas, but I would like clarification from ops regarding 'gold standard' before we build something which may no longer be needed by them.
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > Pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list Pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
