Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Ilmari Karonen nospam@vyznev.net wrote:
So, could we/you just add a couple of small images to some unobtrusive place in the MonoBook skin on enwiki, with one using a protocol-relative URL and the other not, and see what happens?
I've basically done this. Not in the monobook skin, but injected via JS for 1:100 requests along with the IPv6 test. The unambiguous result is that it works.
The open question is: "does it work for more primitive clients which do not support JS?" We could use non-JS images, but we'd have no way to get error reports.
I was thinking of having two images, one using a protocol-relative URL and the other not. Log the requests for each image and compare the logs: any client that consistently requests only the image with the explicit protocol probably doesn't support protocol-relative URLs.