On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Robert Chin <robert.chin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ouch, I guess I missed this e-mail since it didn't
say "BREAKING
CHANGE" like normal.
Hmm, I guess I should've put that in, my apologies. I made it so most
things weren't breaking, only URLs embedded in HTML changed.
Is it possible to roll back this change for the main
servers for about
two weeks?
I'd really rather not. The change is necessary to make the
impending
deployment of HTTPS possible, and it was announced well in advance on
the announcements list. Admittedly it didn't say "BREAKING CHANGE"
like it should have, but still, I don't send announcements to
mediawiki-api-announce if they're not important.
It actually breaks all of the mobile clients iOS I
have
tested: Wikipanion, Articles, iWiki and probably almost others. They
have to set their base URL to the local disk (file:///) in order to be
able to load local resources off of the hard drive (stylesheets,
images, etc.) due to security limitations.
Ouch. That's a painful way to break, but also a really nasty hack.
Don't they have to do something special to make /wiki/Some_page work
with that hack, anyway?
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)