Per the below, protocol-relative URLs are now enabled on test.wikipedia.org and will be rolled out to the rest of the wikis over the course of the next few weeks. What this means is that URLs used in the interface will now look like //example.com instead of http://example.com , so we can support both HTTP and HTTPS without splitting our cache.
The API, in most cases, will not output protocol-relative URLs, but will continue to output http:// URLs no matter whether you call it over HTTP or HTTPS. This is because we don't expect API clients to be able to resolve these correctly, and that the context of these URLs (which is needed to resolve them) will frequently get lost along the way. And we don't wanna go breaking clients, now, do we? :)
The exceptions to this, as far as I am aware, are: * HTML produced by the parser will have protocol-relative URLs in <a href="..."> tags etc. * prop=extlinks and list=exturlusage will output URLs verbatim as they appear in the article, which means they may output protocol-relative URLs
If you are getting protocol-relative URLs in some other place, that's probably a bug (or maybe it's intentional and I forgot to list it here), so please let me know, or e-mail this list, or file bug, if you see that happening.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ryan Lane rlane32@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:55 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Protocol-relative URLs enabled on test.wikipedia.org To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Over the past couple days Roan Kattouw and I have been pushing out changes to enable protocol-relative URL support. We've gotten to a point where we think it is stable and working.
We've enabled this on test.wikipedia.org, and plan on running it for two weeks before enabling it elsewhere. Please test if everything is working properly, especially with regards to the API and bots. Report bugs in bugzilla if any are found.
- Ryan
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
Per the below, protocol-relative URLs are now enabled on test.wikipedia.org and will be rolled out to the rest of the wikis over the course of the next few weeks. What this means is that URLs used in the interface will now look like //example.com instead of http://example.com , so we can support both HTTP and HTTPS without splitting our cache.
As you may have noticed, this was rolled out to all wikis on Monday September 26th. I didn't announce it in advance, my apologies for that.
The exceptions to this, as far as I am aware, are:
- HTML produced by the parser will have protocol-relative URLs in <a
href="..."> tags etc.
It has been reported that this breaks iOS clients [1]. To give the authors time to fix their clients, I have instated a temporary hack that expands protocol-relative URLs to fully-qualified URLs even in the HTML produced by action=parse. This means that action=parse HTML will not contain protocol-relative URLs for now, which should allow those iOS clients to keep working while their authors fix them. Because of the considerable increase in server load this hack causes, it will be live for at most two weeks, after which the old behavior will return, and protocol-relative URLs will appear in action=parse HTML. See [2] for details.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2011-September/002361.htm... [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2011-September/002366.htm...
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
It has been reported that this breaks iOS clients [1]. To give the authors time to fix their clients, I have instated a temporary hack that expands protocol-relative URLs to fully-qualified URLs even in the HTML produced by action=parse. This means that action=parse HTML will not contain protocol-relative URLs for now, which should allow those iOS clients to keep working while their authors fix them. Because of the considerable increase in server load this hack causes, it will be live for at most two weeks, after which the old behavior will return, and protocol-relative URLs will appear in action=parse HTML. See [2] for details.
This change has now been undone. I previously announced that it would be undone yesterday, but that didn't end up happening. My apologies for slipping a day on that.
Roan
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