That all sounds fine to me so long as we're all agreed. -- David Schoonover d...@wikimedia.org
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Asher Feldman <afeld...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > On Wednesday, February 6, 2013, David Schoonover wrote: > > > Just want to summarize and make sure I've got the right conclusions, as > > this thread has wandered a bit. > > > > *1. X-MF-Mode: Alpha/Beta Site Usage* > > * > > * > > We'll roll this into the X-CS header, which will now be KV-pairs (using > > normal URL encoding), and set by Varnish. > > > Nope. There will be a header denoting non-standard MobileFrontend views if > the mobile team wants to leave the caching situation as is. It will be a > response header set by mediawiki, not varnish. The header will have a > unique name, it will not share the name of the zero carrier header. The > udplog field that currently only ever contains carrier information on zero > requests will become a key value field. Udplog fields are not named, they > are positional. > > > > This will avoid an explosion of > > cryptic headers for analytic purposes. > > > > Questions: > > - It seems there's some confusion around "bypassing Varnish". If I > > understand correctly, it's not that Varnish is ever bypassed, just that > the > > upstream response is not cached if cookies are present. Is that right? > > > "Bypasses varnish caching" != "bypassing varnish." I don't see any use of > the later in this thread, but if there has been confusion, know that all > m.wikipedia.org requests are served via varnish. > > > > - Since we're repurposing X-CS, should we perhaps rename it to something > > more apt to address concerns about cryptic non-standard headers flying > > about? > > > Nope.. We're repurposing the fixed position udplog field, not the zero > carrier code header. > > > > > > > > *2. X-MF-Req: Primary vs Secondary API Requests* > > > > This header will be replaced with a query parameter set by the > client-side > > JS code making the request. Analytics will parse it out at processing > time > > and Do The Right Thing. > > > > > > Kindly correct me if I've gotten anything wrong. > > > > > > -- > > David Schoonover > > d...@wikimedia.org > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Diederik van Liere > > <dvanli...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > > > > > > Analytics folks, is this workable from your perspective? > > > > > > > > Yes, this works fine for us and it's also no problem to set multiple > > > key/value pairs in the http header that we are now using for the X-CS > > > header. > > > Diederik > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
