document.write is dangerous if it happens to be called from async loaded 
scripts (we forbid it in general, and only use it from very select cases in 
core.
document.writeln is a bit safer if I remember correctly.

DJ


On 30 jul. 2014, at 14:50, Gautam Chandna <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hmm.. document.write() seems to work just fine on Opera Mini, even when 
> loaded from external scripts/inlined/etc. The only problem seems to be about 
> timing, ie. if a page takes too long to load, the scripts will be left behind.
> 
> I haven't had a chance to checkout your code and run it locally, but could 
> you confirm that Opera Mini actually gets the document.write()?
> 
> When visiting this directly, on various user-agents, I don't see a 
> document.write
>  
> www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ZeroRatedMobileAccess&zcmd=js-banner
>  (I obviously get just this: 
> window.mw.zeroConfig={"enabled":false,"id":null}; )
> 
> I'm waiting for a colleague to test and report from a network where Wikipedia 
> is actually free.
> 
> 
> For your second question: Since the webpage/session/cookies are all sitting 
> on the server, all AJAX/inline requests will originate from the Mini Server 
> and not the client. The IP address will belong to our servers, and the 
> x-forwarded-for will be set as the client's ip.
> 
> Best regards,
> Gautam
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Gautam, another question for you - in addition to the previous - if I have a 
> script that runs onload, which pulls some data from web servers, which origin 
> IP will that request have?  E.g., a regular request from a non-opera client 
> either has the ip of the client, or the client's ip is somewhere in the 
> X-Forwarded-For header. When the opera mini server executes javascript that 
> makes an AJAX request on behalf of a client, does it set XFF header to the 
> client ip? Or does it originate from its own IP?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Jon, TimS suggested we use this approach, because we don't have ESI, and we 
> need to inject a Zero banner which is client IP dependent, without varying 
> article's HTML.
> 
> See this RFC for details on why we do it and how.
> 
> Gautam, the code is, as always, fully open source :)  See the this RFC 
> (banner generation) first and also here's the Repository, code that generates 
> <script> & <noscript>, and this code outputs the actual javascript.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also don't use document.write :)
> Out of interest what is this document.write code needed for?
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Gautam Chandna <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Opera mini doesn't support inlined scripts, as it needs to finish processing
> > the page as fast as possible for transcoding.
> >
> > The session/cookies/dom/etc all sits on the server while the client simply
> > sees the rendered page. To make this possible, we have to give up on a lot
> > of scripted functionality.
> >
> > It does execute the onload event for upto 5 seconds, so you could try using
> > that. If you're open to sharing your code, I could try and help.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Gautam Chandna
> > +47 4567 1789
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On 28 Jul 2014, at 20:45, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I'm running into an opera mini strangeness. I have a <script src="...">
> > tag inside <body>, which is suppose to return document.write("some HTML");
> > This works fine except on opera mini, which does not seem to even call the
> > server, because I looked at server:source and saw the unsubstituted <script>
> > tag.  Any suggestions?
> >
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