| cooltey | |
| Nov 7 2023, 1:21 AM |
| F41462599: Screenshot 2023-11-06 at 17-20-18 Wikimedia Error.png | |
| Nov 7 2023, 1:21 AM |
Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):
The Android and iOS apps are using the endpoint but not the endpoint is not working on zhwiki.
https://zh.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/featured/2023/11/07 is not working.
What happens?:
It shows: Error: 401, Temporarily forbidden
What should have happened instead?:
It should return the data.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/featured/2023/11/07
Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):
https://zh.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/featured/2023/11/07 seems to work for me -- was this a transient error?
Seems unlikely, the REST gateway doesn't autonomously issue 401s generally. Is this a hangover from T346657?
It's not really a hangover. Allowing that pattern on restbase caused repeated outages as there's a few very persistent and tricky scrapers and the pathological behaviour of the code paths in parsoid caused outages to both parsoid and restbase overall, repeatedly.
It seems now that a patch was brought to production with today's train that should mitigate the issues; we can try to disable the requestctl rule and see if we don't incur in more outages now.
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-11-09T11:38:43Z] <_joe_> disabled requestctl cache-text/wikifeeds_featured T350645 T346657
Tentatively resolving for now, but this might go back to banned if the underlying problems aren't solved with the latest patches.