it sounds like we have consensus for a short-term solution based on a vanilla parameter,
as long as it doesn’t clash with other internal parameters. I agree with Gergo that a
shortener is appealing as a long-term solution, this is what the vast majority of
platforms are using for analytics purposes, it also has the added benefit of addressing
the impact of referrer information being stripped for HTTPS requests. If there’s no other
objection, we can safely fold this under the discussion of long-term options and go ahead
with the proposed implementation, per Dan.
Thanks, everybody.
On Feb 24, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Gergo Tisza
<gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org
<mailto:abaso@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
Hi Nemo - I think the concern was that it might be the case that the 'title'
parameter may be at the end of the URL, and the 'title' parameter could in
principle support a value with forward slashes potentially indistinguishable from the
string in option #2. Of course, regular expressions can make anything possible in theory
:) Anybody else able to explain further on the title schema risk?
Well, it doesn't work. Not sure I'd call that a risk though :-)
How did that even come up? Why not use an ampersand instead of a forward slash?
Ampersands have a well-defined meaning in the query part of the URL, while slashes
don't.
Personally, I would favor the URL shortener. It is a useful feature on it's own, good
for branding (if you don't shorten, many sites will shorten for you using their own
schema, which results in nondescript URLs), you get nice URLs (in the short URL you can
just factor the parameters into the shortened part, in the full URL you don't need
them because the user has been counted already), you get less cache fragmentation (even if
you remove the parameter in Varnish, you'll still fragment the client cache). On the
negative side, it's one more request so clicking through becomes somewhat slower.
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