[Engineering] Proposal regarding the future of X-Wikimedia-Debug and testwiki

Ori Livneh ori at wikimedia.org
Mon Jan 25 21:32:44 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch at wikimedia.org
> wrote:

> The one drawback is that people who use browsers without the magic browser
> extension will have trouble testing things where they now could use
> testwiki. IE comes to mind, for one.
>

Well, they can continue to use testwiki unless they specifically require
the cache-miss behavior. And if they do require it, there are generic
reverse-proxy tools like Charles (http://www.charlesproxy.com/; not free)
and Proximodo (http://proximodo.sourceforge.net/; free and open-source)
that can inject request headers and that work on Windows.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/attachments/20160125/f297f46e/attachment.html>


More information about the Engineering mailing list