On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Robert Chin <robert.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > There appears to be some sort of bug affecting a subset of pages that > started happening yesterday night. Certain <img src=> tags on > Wikipedia's API are being served with an invalid URL, missing the > scheme in front: > > <img src="//bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/magnify-clip.png"> > These URLs are not invalid, they're protocol-relative. They should work in every browser. They're officially called 'network-path references' and specified in RFC 3986 section 4.2 [1]. If your client can't deal with these URLs, that's because it doesn't comply with that RFC.
That said, I should probably have announced that this was happening yesterday. Per Brad, there was a generic "this is coming" announcement, but I should've announced the exact time in advance. My apologies for that. Also, per my earlier announcement, the API will output http URLs rather than protocol-relative URLs in almost all cases. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-4.2 _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
