RSS readers now unable to subscribe due to Anubis
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	Tarrow
	Sep 26 2025, 8:50 AM

Description

Steps to replicate the issue (User reported - not reproduced by WMDE yet):

have RSS feed in *thunderbird*
e.g. https://coffeebase.wikibase.cloud/w/api.php?hidebots=1&hideWikibase=1&urlversion=1&days=30&limit=50&action=feedrecentchanges&feedformat=atom

What happens?:

My feed reader on Thunderbird no longer fetches them

What should have happened instead?:
It should keep working

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open	BUG REPORT	None	T405708 RSS readers now unable to subscribe due to Anubis
		Open		None	T411627 Exclude API endpoints from Anubis

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Tarrow created this task.Sep 26 2025, 8:50 AM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptSep 26 2025, 8:50 AM

Addshore awarded a token.Sep 26 2025, 11:37 AM

(FWIW, my guess would be that this mainly affects Thunderbird. AFAIK Anubis is only supposed to filter out browser user agents, so it probably catches Thunderbird because that would include “Gecko” in its user agent string, but other feed readers would hopefully use another user agent and bypass Anubis?)

We need to investigate if this really is broken. If it is, we should probably add an exception using the Anubis config. From a very preliminary look I thought I got a green check in Thunderbird's feed reader for the above urls

Anton.Kokh moved this task from Backlog (incoming) to Product - Ready to Pick Up on the Wikibase Cloud board.Oct 8 2025, 1:50 PM

Anton.Kokh moved this task from Product - Ready to Pick Up to Kanban Board on the Wikibase Cloud board.Oct 15 2025, 8:10 AM

Anton.Kokh edited projects, added Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board); removed Wikibase Cloud.

Anton.Kokh edited projects, added Wikibase Cloud; removed Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board).Oct 16 2025, 10:01 AM

Anton.Kokh moved this task from Backlog (incoming) to Product - Ready to Pick Up on the Wikibase Cloud board.

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE added a subtask: T411627: Exclude API endpoints from Anubis.Wed, Dec 3, 2:05 PM

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved this task from Product - Ready to Pick Up to Kanban Board on the Wikibase Cloud board.Wed, Dec 3, 2:09 PM

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE edited projects, added Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board); removed Wikibase Cloud.

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved this task from To do to Goals & Stories on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.Wed, Dec 3, 2:12 PM