https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14736
Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #12 from Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> 2009-11-30 16:30:36 UTC --- (In reply to comment #11) > > Sorry if you have to speak sort of slowly to me, I'm new here. Would a > > redirect > > cause too much of a load increase? > > It would increase latency. It should be quite cheap in terms of cpu. We could > do it > in such a way so the images are served by the squids, instead of the apaches > everytime. > No we couldn't, because loading the image sets the cookie generated by PHP. This cookie is unique for each login, so you can't cache it in Squid. These images are a trick we use so xx.wikipedia.org can set a cookie for *.wiktionary.org: it loads an image from xx.wiktionary.org, and that image sets a cookie. We need to do that on the intermediate page because it needs to happen after the user has logged in, but before they go God-only-knows-where. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
