yup, its seem fairly doable and the issue has been raised to our ops team. we're waiting to hear back about what's necessary in order to make it work.
--tomasz On Aug 20, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Platonides wrote: > Brion Vibber wrote: >> However, we can't just use a User-Agent check in PHP for this, since >> 90-something percent of the time the PHP scripts are not being executed: the >> Squid caches respond to most web requests directly. >> >> So what would be required would be some filtering in the caches to check for >> particular User-Agents or other settings and send them the redirect >> directly, or send them through to PHP for possible redirection. (Assuming >> there's no problem with downstream caching, which I think should usually be >> ok the way we have things marked -- as long as the redirect responses are >> marked as private-cache or uncacheable.) >> >> A JavaScript hack was quicker to put in place than the cache-level logic, >> but it was only ever meant as a stopgap. >> >> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) > > I was precisely thinking on this the other day. The javascript is just > doing a regex on the user agent, and squid is perfectly capable of doing > that. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
