X-CS historically has been for Wikipedia Zero operator tagging. Not sure
about use of X-Analytics or other headers for alpha/beta/stable channel
stuff.

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I recall at some point the mobile site was setting the site type (Beta vs.
> Normal) in one of the headers, either X-Analytics or X-CS.  But I don't see
> any of that in the most recent varnish code [1].  I might not be looking in
> the right place, or it may not be happening any more.  CC-ing mobile list
> as someone there likely knows.
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-puppet/blob/fb4205ccc384612e267d59babab7622b12bc6f00/templates/varnish/mobile-frontend.inc.vcl.erb
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, this should be:
>>
>> >Mobile web beta does not have any special url. It is triggered by a
>> cookie.
>> If the COOKIE that identifies 'mobile-web-beta' is stripped off in
>> varnish (something you can ask your devs about)...
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> (cc-ing analytics list)
>>>
>>> Jon:
>>>
>>> To get a prompt response please cc analytics or analytics-internal on
>>> e-mails that way -given that we operate in three timezones- someone is
>>> bound to see your e-mail and respond in a timely fashion.
>>>
>>>
>>> >Right now the Gather feature is only available/discoverable on mobile
>>> web beta for english wikipedia.
>>> I assume "mobile web beta"  is deployed to enwiki in production just
>>> like an special "skin" or 'extension.
>>>
>>>
>>> >Mobile web beta does not have any special url. It is triggered by a
>>> cookie.
>>> If the that identifies 'mobile-web-beta' is stripped off in varnish
>>> (something you can ask your devs about) then there is no way for you to see
>>> that traffic. (this is the most-likely case I was looking around and
>>> couldn't find any code that would be persisting this cookies further than
>>> varnish).
>>> However, if the cookie value is persisted to x-analytics field then
>>> records are "findable".
>>>
>>> Now, if there are any javascript/css files ONLY used by the "mobile web
>>> beta feature" you could do a (very, very) rough estimation of requests by
>>> looking at those. Probably you want to team up with a developer to find out
>>> whether this is possible.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Jon Katz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Nuria,
>>>> Right now the Gather feature is only available/discoverable on mobile
>>>> web beta for english wikipedia.  As such, it is really important that I
>>>> know what the overall traffic is on mobile web beta.  How can I discover
>>>> this using web request logs? Mobile web beta does not have any special url.
>>>>
>>>> It is triggered by a cookie.  Here is how a user opts in.  Any help
>>>> would be greatly appreciated!!!
>>>>
>>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Jon
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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