On 09/02/12 18:19, Amgine wrote: > Most of the php bot frameworks, including some which are heavily used on > en.WP, use serialized php. > > I do not believe MW should make such a decision due to IE being a > poorly-behaved browser, this being the only argument presented. > > Amgine
- The long deprecation should be done for any format being deprecated. - I don't think we should drop php format. - The IE-only problems could be addressed by banning (403) those formats for IE User-Agents. Api queries aren't tipically cached, so no cache duplication problem there, the rule can be duplicated in the squids too, to ensure a IE query never arrives to the apaches. Possible concern: some winsock libraries would use the windows default user-agent (IE), although it's likely very low, and for those formats even much more, and we discourage not using a custom UA, even if they are unaware they should do it. _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
