Change Details

Trying to download a file from Wikipedia via [[Special:Redirect]] on Labs. Works fine for enwiki: wget -O - 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Redirect/file/Example.jpg' | less -S <long flood of binary> On dewiki, however: wget -O - 'https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Redirect/file/Example.jpg' | less -S <HTML with "write block" warning> Expected result: binary data. It appears to be this block: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial%3ALogbuch&type=block&user=&page=Benutzer%3A10.68.0.0%2F16&year=&month=-1&tagfilter= which prevents a WMF IP range from creating user accounts. tl;dr: [[Special:Redirect]] should not require write rights.