Using custom HTTP headers would, of course, complicate calls for the tool
authors (i.e., myself). $.ajax instead of $.get and all that. I would be
less inclined to change to that.
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 10:42 AM Guillaume Lederrey <glederrey(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Stas Malyshev
<smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi!
This thread is missing some background context
info as to what the
issues are, if you could forward it it will be great.
Well, I'm not talking about specific issues, except for the general need
of identifying which tool is responsible for which queries. Basically,
there are several ways of doing it:
1. Adding comments to the query itself
2. Adding query parameters
3. Adding query headers, specifically:
a) distinct User-Agent
b) distinct X-Analytics header
c) custom headers
I think that 3a is good for statistics purposes, though 1 could be more
efficient when we need to find out who sent a particular query. 3b may
be superior to 3a, but I admit I don't know enough about it :)
I'm a bit late to the discussion, but still...
I think that as much as possible metadata about a query should be done
via HTTP headers. This way, they are not coupled to SPARQL itself and
can be analysed with generic tools already in place. Setting a
user-agent is a standard best practice and seems to be part of the
Mediawiki API guidelines [1], we should use the same guidelines, no
reason to reinvent them.
X-Analytics header might allow for more fine grained information, but
I'm not sure this is actually needed (and using X-Analytics should not
preclude from having a sensible user-agent).
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page#Identifying_your_client
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