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Flag in x-analytics in varnish any request that comes with no cookies whatsoever {bear} [5 pts]
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Flag in x-analytics in varnish any request that comes with no cookies whatsoever.

We can use the fact that the request comes without any cookies as a proxy to identify bots, this method will catch users browsing with cookies off (a minority) and users with a clean slate browser session (such us Chrome incognito mode) . Currently we identify bots using the user agent but we know we are missing a great number that cannot be identified this way.

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Mark incoming requests without cookies in x-analyticsoperations/puppetproduction+10 -0
Customize query in gerrit

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• Nuria created this task.Oct 1 2015, 2:54 PM
• Nuria raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.
• Nuria updated the task description. (Show Details)
• Nuria added subscribers: • Nuria, • madhuvishy, leila and 2 others.
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Aklapper added a comment.Oct 1 2015, 2:55 PM

Hi @Nuria. Please associate at least one project with this task, otherwise nobody can find this task when searching in the corresponding project(s). Thanks.

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• Nuria triaged this task as Unbreak Now! priority.Oct 7 2015, 3:57 PM
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• Nuria moved this task from Next Up to In Code Review on the Analytics-Kanban board.Oct 12 2015, 5:23 PM
Milimetric removed a project: Analytics-Backlog.Oct 13 2015, 5:10 PM
• Nuria added a comment.Oct 13 2015, 5:10 PM

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/244626/

Milimetric renamed this task from Flag in x-analytics in varnish any request that comes with no cookies whatsoever to Flag in x-analytics in varnish any request that comes with no cookies whatsoever [5 pts].Oct 13 2015, 5:12 PM
• kevinator renamed this task from Flag in x-analytics in varnish any request that comes with no cookies whatsoever [5 pts] to Flag in x-analytics in varnish any request that comes with no cookies whatsoever {bear} [5 pts].Oct 13 2015, 5:13 PM
gerritbot subscribed.Oct 13 2015, 6:03 PM

Change 244626 had a related patch set uploaded (by Nuria):
Mark incoming requests without cookies in x-analytics

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/244626

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Oct 13 2015, 6:03 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Oct 21 2015, 1:29 PM

Change 244626 merged by BBlack:
Mark incoming requests without cookies in x-analytics

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/244626

• Nuria moved this task from In Code Review to Done on the Analytics-Kanban board.Oct 21 2015, 5:54 PM
• Nuria closed this task as Resolved.Oct 23 2015, 4:12 PM
BBlack moved this task from Backlog to Done on the Traffic board.Oct 26 2015, 4:29 PM
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