Last modified: 2011-03-11 01:22:36 UTC
When trying to get a browser comparison of pages at English Wikisource, I went to try the site http://browsershots.org/ Upon trying, it reports Browsershots was blocked by secure.wikimedia.org/robots.txt. Please read the FAQ http://browsershots.org/faq#Blockedbyrobots. At that page it suggests the resolution User-agent: Browsershots Disallow: I am told that there can be editing at [[Mediawiki:Robots.txt]], though apart not feeling comfortable editing that file, it may be something worthy of a global review. At face value, it would not seem to be a high level access from the site as from my looking it is a "push" type service done on request. Thanks.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13307 ***
Found out that it is the secure server that is being blocked, so not exact duplicate. It is reasonable that we utilise standard urls for the generation of the screenshots.