On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Robert Chin robert.chin@gmail.com wrote:
Ouch, I guess I missed this e-mail since it didn't say "BREAKING CHANGE" like normal.
Hmm, I guess I should've put that in, my apologies. I made it so most things weren't breaking, only URLs embedded in HTML changed.
Is it possible to roll back this change for the main servers for about two weeks?
I'd really rather not. The change is necessary to make the impending deployment of HTTPS possible, and it was announced well in advance on the announcements list. Admittedly it didn't say "BREAKING CHANGE" like it should have, but still, I don't send announcements to mediawiki-api-announce if they're not important.
It actually breaks all of the mobile clients iOS I have tested: Wikipanion, Articles, iWiki and probably almost others. They have to set their base URL to the local disk (file:///) in order to be able to load local resources off of the hard drive (stylesheets, images, etc.) due to security limitations.
Ouch. That's a painful way to break, but also a really nasty hack. Don't they have to do something special to make /wiki/Some_page work with that hack, anyway?
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)