Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-18 Thread MZMcBride
Ryan Lane wrote: There's a bunch of things that we should likely do in the future as well. We should likely set a non-secure cookie for HTTPS logged in users that indicates the user requests HTTPS only (via a preference, enabled by default), that will redirect them to HTTPS if they somehow

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-18 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 2:35 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: These all sound like good ideas to investigate. Just make sure they're in Bugzilla at some point so they don't get lost in a mailman archive. :-)  I think there's a tracking bug for https or secure login somewhere. MZMcBride

[Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Ryan Lane
In anticipation for proper HTTPS support on Wikimedia sites, we will be enabling protocol relative URLs. This means that things like logos, references to resources, and interwiki links will use links like: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page instead of links like:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Brion Vibber
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: In anticipation for proper HTTPS support on Wikimedia sites, we will be enabling protocol relative URLs. This means that things like logos, references to resources, and interwiki links will use links like:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: We'll enable this for test.wikipedia.org some time before enabling it globally, so that there will be at least a short time to test beforehand. For completeness: this, both enabling it on testwiki and enabling it sitewide,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Brion Vibber
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: We'll enable this for test.wikipedia.org some time before enabling it globally, so that there will be at least a short time to test beforehand.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote: Is there a handy config snippet people can use to test things against their local installs in the meantime? Afraid not. We have to change hardcoded http:// prefixes in a million different places, see

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Brion Vibber
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote: Is there a handy config snippet people can use to test things against their local installs in the meantime? Afraid not. We have to change

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: Great that we have a list! :D Do make sure that all of those individual settings get tested before touching the production cluster; Well that's what the testwiki thing is for :) I'd be particularly worried about the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Brion Vibber
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: Great that we have a list! :D Do make sure that all of those individual settings get tested before touching the production cluster; Well

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Victor Vasiliev
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: * email What about user preference for cases like this? With four options: Prefer HTTP, Prefer HTTPS, Force HTTP, Force HTTPS. --vvv ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Brion Vibber
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Victor Vasiliev vasi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: * email What about user preference for cases like this? With four options: Prefer HTTP, Prefer HTTPS, Force HTTP, Force HTTPS. The current case is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Brion Vibber
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: [snip] or it defaults to HTTP for something formatted from default. s/default/background job running on CLI/ :P -- brion ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Ryan Lane
My personal preference would be to run *all* logged-in activity over HTTPS, so every mail link etc should be on SSL. But I think that's still a ways out yet and will need better SSL acceleration; poor Ryan Lane will kill me if I keep pushing on that too soon! ;) Actually, this is exactly