On 2014-05-21, 3:29 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: >>> Fabrice, is this still the case? Are there ways around this? >>> >>> * I suppose session cookies for anons just to possibly thank them is a >>> bit excessive. >> It sure sounds excessive. Setting a session cookie after an edit has been >> made by an anon might[1] be quite cheap in reality, or at least cheap >> enough to justify the cost. Privacy wise it also seems ok, but I might be >> overlooking some things on that regard as well. >> >> --Martijn > Don't we already do this upon an anon visiting an edit page? Otherwise > standard talk page messages wouldn't really work for anons, as the > user wouldn't get past varnish. > > --bawolff To be clear, we set a cookie on submit of the edit page, whether it results in an edit or not, but not on visit.
But that is essentially what Martijn described. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
