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Bug 69204 - weblinkchecker.py uses a fake user-agent
weblinkchecker.py uses a fake user-agent
Status: NEW
Product: Pywikibot
Classification: Unclassified
weblinkchecker.py (Other open bugs)
core-(2.0)
All All
: Low enhancement
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Assigned To: Pywikipedia bugs
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Reported: 2014-08-06 20:43 UTC by John Mark Vandenberg
Modified: 2014-11-09 17:46 UTC (History)
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Description John Mark Vandenberg 2014-08-06 20:43:13 UTC 
weblinkchecker.py (core) contains this comment:

# we fake being Firefox because some webservers block unknown
# clients, e.g. https://images.google.de/images?q=Albit gives a 403
# when using the PyWikipediaBot user agent.
'User-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051128 SUSE/1.5-0.1 Firefox/1.5',

Which was added to core in Jan 2007:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/pywikipedia/3165

Faking the user-agent should be an option, default disabled, or only used for servers known to be problematic.
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