On 07/11/12 07:46, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
> There is a changeset to ULS providing one solution:
> <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/32030/>

As I said on the changeset, adding Vary: Cookie doesn't actually do
anything, but if you did make it do something, the result would be
essentially no caching, since there is client-side code deployed which
sets random cookies for all anonymous users.

The variant feature has much the same problem, and they solved it by
putting the language code in the URL, and then purging all possible
language URLs when a page is changed. Then only the
language-independent URLs need to send Vary: Accept-Language. I think
that is the best solution here, also.

Maybe it would be possible to vary on the value of the ULS language
cookie, but it would require patches to Squid and Varnish. Maybe you
could get away with just patching every client-side extension to use
local storage instead of cookies, but the result would be pretty
fragile since apparently, all our frontend developers love $.cookie
and use it by reflex.

-- Tim Starling


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