The link provided for "forbidden connections" is outdated: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy (it is now a soft-redirect from Meta-wiki to Governance-wiki).
The specific message is:
Failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden. Please comply with the User-Agent policy: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy
The correct URL is: https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_User-Agent_Policy
(Original user bug-report)
$ git grep https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy modules/profile/files/wmcs/services/maintain_dbusers/maintain_dbusers.py: # https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy modules/varnish/templates/misc-frontend.inc.vcl.erb: return (synth(429, "Too many requests. Please comply with the User-Agent policy to get a higher rate limit: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy")); modules/varnish/templates/text-frontend.inc.vcl.erb: return (synth(403, "Scripted requests from your IP have been blocked, please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy. In case of further questions, please contact noc@wikimedia.org.")); modules/varnish/templates/upload-frontend.inc.vcl.erb: return (synth(429, "Too many requests. Please comply with the User-Agent policy to get a higher rate limit: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy")); modules/varnish/templates/upload-frontend.inc.vcl.erb: return (synth(403, "Forbidden. Please comply with the User-Agent policy: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy")); modules/varnish/templates/upload-frontend.inc.vcl.erb: return (synth(403, "Forbidden. Please comply with the User-Agent policy: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy")); modules/varnish/templates/wikimedia-frontend.vcl.erb: return (synth(403, "Scripted requests from your IP have been blocked, please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy. In case of further questions, please contact noc@wikimedia.org.")); modules/varnish/templates/wikimedia-frontend.vcl.erb: return (synth(403, "Scripted requests from your IP have been blocked, please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy. In case of further questions, please contact noc@wikimedia.org.")); modules/varnish/templates/wikimedia-frontend.vcl.erb: return (synth(429, "Scripted requests from your IP have been blocked, please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy. In case of further questions, please contact noc@wikimedia.org."));
Change #1172434 had a related patch set uploaded (by BryanDavis; author: Bryan Davis):
[operations/puppet@production] wmcs: Update URL in comment in maintain_dbusers.py
Change #1172435 had a related patch set uploaded (by BryanDavis; author: Bryan Davis):
[operations/puppet@production] varnish: Update User-Agent Policy url in error messages
Change #1172435 merged by BCornwall:
[operations/puppet@production] varnish: Update User-Agent Policy url in error messages
Change #1177479 had a related patch set uploaded (by BCornwall; author: BCornwall):
[operations/puppet@production] fixup! varnish: Update User-Agent Policy url in error messages
Change #1177483 had a related patch set uploaded (by BryanDavis; author: Bryan Davis):
[operations/puppet@production] varnish: Update User-Agent Policy url in error messages (take 2)
Change #1177483 abandoned by BryanDavis:
[operations/puppet@production] varnish: Update User-Agent Policy url in error messages (take 2)
Reason:
Duplicate of Iaf97f1b77450fced2979509ec013dd1cc6f0c478
Change #1177479 merged by BCornwall:
[operations/puppet@production] fixup! varnish: Update User-Agent Policy url in error messages
@bd808 there's still https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/1172434, isn't there?
Yes, but that one doesn't matter in a user facing sense. It was included in my patch stack just to get all of the old URL usage out of ops/puppet. I'll nudge the WMCS folks to merge it.
Change #1172434 merged by Majavah:
[operations/puppet@production] wmcs: Update URL in comment in maintain_dbusers.py