Not to mention HTTPS - which would cause "This page contains both secure and
non-secure elements." dialogs.
On 3/11/07, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/11/07, Dan Jacobson <jidanni(a)jidanni.org> wrote:
Just curious about ways to maybe save bandwidth
for little mediawiki
installations as well as wikipedia:
Have the logos at the bottom of the screen, background images use the
central wikimedia ones ("hotlinked") instead of the ones that come
from the distribution .tar. And on the central wikimedia ones, have
Expires: Jan 1 2036 etc. HTTP header. Result: one copy cached forever
on the whole Internet? If one day regret Expires 2036, then just
change the filename when needed. Or maybe expires 1 year form now,
etc.
Maybe also somewhat for .css.
That would be great if a) the Wikimedia Foundation had lots of
bandwidth and Squid resources to spare, and b) it never ever ever
would ever not have lots of bandwidth and Squid resources to spare
(since packaging things this way would be tantamount to a promise
never to remove them). Also, it'll be fun when every MediaWiki
install on the Internet looks ugly every time the cluster goes down,
and I'm sure it would be viewed as very professional to have a
third-party wiki with zero users take ten seconds to fully load a
cache miss at peak hours.
It wouldn't work at all for CSS, since that changes on a regular basis.
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