Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: RFC: Introducing two new HTTP headers to track mobile pageviews

2013-02-03 Thread rupert THURNER
the reason to use two fields instead of one makes it much easier to implement or performant? On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 1:08 AM, David Schoonover wrote: > Huh! News to me as well. I definitely agree with that decision. Thanks, Ori! > > I've already written the Varnish code for setting X-MF-Mode so it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: RFC: Introducing two new HTTP headers to track mobile pageviews

2013-02-02 Thread David Schoonover
Huh! News to me as well. I definitely agree with that decision. Thanks, Ori! I've already written the Varnish code for setting X-MF-Mode so it can be captured by varnishncsa. Is there agreement to switch to Mobile-Mode, or at least, MF-Mode? Looking especially to hear from Arthur and Matt. -- Da

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: RFC: Introducing two new HTTP headers to track mobile pageviews

2013-02-02 Thread Diederik van Liere
Thanks Ori, I was not aware of this D Sent from my iPhone On 2013-02-02, at 16:55, Ori Livneh wrote: > > > On Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Platonides wrote: > >> I don't like it's cryptic nature. >> >> Someone looking at the headers sent to his browser would be very >> confused ab

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: RFC: Introducing two new HTTP headers to track mobile pageviews

2013-02-02 Thread Ori Livneh
On Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Platonides wrote: > I don't like it's cryptic nature. > > Someone looking at the headers sent to his browser would be very > confused about what's the point of «X-MF-Mode: b». > > Instead something like this would be much more descriptive: > X-Mobile

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: RFC: Introducing two new HTTP headers to track mobile pageviews

2013-02-02 Thread Platonides
I don't like it's cryptic nature. Someone looking at the headers sent to his browser would be very confused about what's the point of «X-MF-Mode: b». Instead something like this would be much more descriptive: X-Mobile-Mode: stable X-Mobile-Request: secondary But that also means sending more byt

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: RFC: Introducing two new HTTP headers to track mobile pageviews

2013-01-31 Thread Diederik van Liere
(Apologies for cross-posting) Heya, The mobile team needs accurate pageviews for the alpha and beta mobile site. Currently, this information is only stored in a cookie, but we don't want to go the route of starting to store this cookie because of cache server performance, network performance and