Re: MediaWiki and Anubis
Bryan Davis via MediaWiki-l <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 7:33 AM Clausen, Jörn via MediaWiki-l <[email protected]> wrote: > > I hate it when I have to answer my own questions. Although this is only > a partial answer... > > When browsing the wikis using Chrome, the logs show access from > 127.0.0.1, directly followed by access from the real IP address of the > client. This is not seen when using Firefox, in that case only the real > IP address is logged. > > Some of my wikis are restricted to my campus network - which does not > include 127.0.0.1. After I added that address to the whitelist, Chrome > was also able to access the wikis through Anubis. > > The question why Anubis behaves so differently with Firefox and Chrome > as clients is still open, but probably one for the Anubis community. If > someone here has any idea or knows what's going on, I am still happy to > listen :) There are some mentions of Anubis at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Handling_web_crawlers>. That page was started as an outcome from some prior discussion of the IP range blocking we have resorted to in Beta Cluster[0]. You might be able to get some discussion going on the task page there in addition to this thread. It would be neat if any new things you learn end up documented there too. [0]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/2RFFHXSI6INQDJ2AQ7U3IQ2HTHT5J4VL/#2RFFHXSI6INQDJ2AQ7U3IQ2HTHT5J4VL -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis (WMF)]] irc: bd808 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-l.lists.wikimedia.org/