Recurrent 429 error due to Wikipedia change#14981
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Used a string template instead :) |
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| --- Builds a sensible UserAgent that fits Wikipedia's UA policy <https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_User-Agent_Policy> | ||
| local socket_ua = http.USERAGENT | ||
| socketutil.USER_AGENT = "KOReader/" .. Version:getShortVersion() .. " (" .. Device.model .. "; " .. jit.os .. "; " .. jit.arch .. ") " .. socket_ua:gsub(" ", "/") | ||
| socketutil.USER_AGENT = T("KOReader/%1 (%2; %3; %4; +https://github.com/koreader/koreader) %5", |
Wikipedia recently started enforcing user agents to contain a contact link. Without a contact, the request is subject to 429 errors when requesting images.
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Wikipedia recently started enforcing user agents to contain a contact link. Without a contact, the request is subject to 429 errors when requesting images.
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@poire-z raised in #14766 (comment) that the 429 errors started appearing again
I looked into it some more, I am seeing this change from Wikipedia a few weeks ago. Basically koreader requests started returning
Varnishas the server in the response header, but we should seeThumbor/7.3.2.When you go to the linked wiki commit, they added logic to enforce that the user agent is compliant with their robot policy (the koreader user agent didn't have a contact). It seems koreader got sniped by a wiki rate limit again.
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