On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Brion Vibber <br...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Arthur Richards <aricha...@wikimedia.org > >wrote: > > > Asher, I understand your hesitation about using HTTP header fields, but > > there are a couple problems I'm seeing with using query string > parameters. > > Perhaps you or others have some ideas how to get around these: > > * We should keep user-facing URLs canonical as much as possible > (primarily > > for link sharing) > > ** If we keep user-facing URLs canonical, we could potentially add query > > string params via javascript, but that would only work on devices that > > support javascript/have javascript enabled (this might not be a huge deal > > as we are planning changes such that users that do not support jQuery > will > > get a simplified version of the stable site) > > * How could this work for the first pageview request (eg a user clicking a > > link from Google or even just browsing to http://en.wikipedia.org)? > > > > I think mainly we need the tracking on the API requests... that's all > JavaScript-initiated, and all hidden from the user. The main problem with > adding parameters would be for caching .... but none of the API hits are > currently cacheable so that's not an immediate issue perhaps. > We also need to be able to differentiate between alpha/beta/stable versions of the mobile site, without having to parse the cookie header (I believe as a result of performance constraints around this? I think the analytics team had looked into this previously). -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
