On 10/15/2014 06:06 AM, Mark Bergsma wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Alexandros Kosiaris > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Chris Steipp <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Updating the hook would be possible. Probably better than not turning >>> off ssl3 to the main sites though. What about just running a banner on >>> the site for IE <6 users, telling them that ssl is disabled and soon >>> they won't be able to login at all, we disable ssl3, and we >>> temporarily put the CanIPUseHTTPS hook in to not force IE <6 users to >>> https. After 90 days or so, we pull that part out of the hook, and IE6 >>> users just have to deal with not being able to login? >> >> Given the numbers Christian pointed out, I think the 90 days interval >> is pretty irrelevant. It is not like those users will rush to >> upgrade/change to something not being IE6. I'd be delighted if we >> convinced something like 5% (~200k people if my numbers are right) of >> those users to do that. That being said, the plan sounds fine to me. > > > How many -logins- are we seeing from non-TLS capable browsers? I'd > expect that to be much lower. Likely the majority of IE5/6 users are > from very out of date corporate environments, which is probably not a > place where most of our users are editing from.
This bug is very relevant here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56575 Summary: In April Oliver found that IE 6 has only 0.00479% of logged-in page views these days. _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
