Author: walter
Description:
The following is a very serious problem for the users of the Dutch language Wikipedia;
There is a ISP with many users that is offering a filter-service. A service to censor the internet,
to keep erotic website and so out. This means that all traffic goes throe a range of transparent
proxies.
And so has those users for Wikipedia only a small range of ipadresses. And are those users mostly
always blocked because of the vandalism by other users of that ISP. And because bug 550 is not fixt
we can not do anything about that.
The helpdesk of this ISP (Filternet) explained that the support the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header
that contains the real ip address of a user of there network.
And that we, as Wikipedia could use that header for blocking users.
Can this be done?
It is for the ipadresses;
From
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overleg_gebruiker:212.45.32.211
to
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overleg_gebruiker:212.45.32.224
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overleg_gebruiker:212.45.32.211