Brion Vibber wrote:
On Feb 9, 2004, at 14:30, Timwi wrote:
Access control configuration prevents
your request from
being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider
if you feel this is incorrect.
That user-agent string is blocked. Please pick an application-specific
user agent string,
OK.
and also please respect robots.txt.
Your robots.txt lists HTTrack twice. :-)
Also, it says:
# Friendly, low-speed bots are welcome viewing article
pages, but not
# dynamically-generated pages please.
and yet you're not blocking
Special:Recentchanges or stuff like that :)
If you plan to not follow robots.txt, please ask us to
add a section to
our robots.txt which will allow your bot. (robots.txt works on the honor
system, but please don't get lazy.)
Well, your robots.txt seems to disallow access to /w/ for all
User-Agents. This would mean I would disrespect robots.txt if I were to
submit edits, right?
Then I would humbly like to ask to be allowed to run my little script on
your server. The sole purpose of the script is to replace occurrances of
one text with another. Most of the time, I use it for common spelling
corrections, or fixing links like [[Kurt Godel]] where someone omitted
the diacritic marks.
So what User-Agent string should I use? "Timwiscript"? (I don't like
calling it a bot, it really isn't... it still requires a great deal of
manual interaction, and doesn't wildly do stuff automatically.)
Timwi