On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Ilmari Karonen
<nospam(a)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.
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Ilmari Karonen