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 &lt;rlane32(a)gmail.com&gt; Date: Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:55 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Protocol-relative URLs enabled on test.wikipedia.org To: Wikimedia developers &lt;wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api-announce mailing list Mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce