On Feb 9, 2013, at 11:21 PM, Asher Feldman <afeld...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > For this particular case, the API requests are for either getting specific > sections of an article as opposed to either the whole thing, or the first > section as part of an initial pageview. I might not have grokked the > original RFC email well, but I don't understand why this was being > discussed as a logging challenge or necessitating a request header. A > mobile api request to just get section 3 of the article on otters should > already utilize a query param denoting that section 3 is being fetched, and > is already clearly not a "primary" request.
Yes, that part remains a bit unclear to me as well - some more details would be welcome. > Whether or not it makes sense for mobile to move in the direction of > splitting up article views into many api requests is something I'd love to > see backed up by data. I'm skeptical for multiple reasons. What is the main motivation used here? Reducing article sizes/transfers at the expense of more latency? -- Mark Bergsma <m...@wikimedia.org> Lead Operations Architect Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
