On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Ryan Lane rlane32@gmail.com wrote:
In anticipation for proper HTTPS support on Wikimedia sites, we will be enabling protocol relative URLs. This means that things like logos, references to resources, and interwiki links will use links like:
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
instead of links like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Doing this ensures that we don't split our squid/varnish caches.
We'll enable this for test.wikipedia.org some time before enabling it globally, so that there will be at least a short time to test beforehand.
*squee* :DD
I'm soooo looking forward to consistent https on the main domains! :DDD
Note there's a possibility that this URL tweak may affect some JavaScript-side code or client-side spiders/bots that may expect fully-qualified links or do relative link resolution incorrectly, so everybody keep an eye out for potential issues in your code. Previous testing has been pretty favorable about actual browser support.
-- brion