Hey Chris Could you give us a ballpark estimate of how much search queries you expect per day?
Best Diederik Sent from my iPhone On 2012-06-19, at 13:51, Chris Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Ryan. When you guys would like Mozilla to make this switch to HTTPS, > you can just reopen Firefox bug 758857. > > chris > > > On 6/19/12 10:35 AM, Ryan Lane wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Chris Peterson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> hi, I'm a developer at Mozilla and I have a patch [1] that would switch >>> Firefox's Wikipedia search box from HTTP to HTTPS. >>> >>> Who would be an appropriate technical contact at Wikimedia that I can >>> coordinate with? Is this a change Wikimedia would welcome? Or would the >>> increased SSL server load be an undue burden for Wikimedia? Just to be >>> clear, this change would only affect Firefox users who search Wikipedia >>> using Firefox's search box. >>> >>> A few months ago, Mozilla switched Firefox 14 (currently in Beta) to use >>> Google's HTTPS search [2]. If I check in my Wikipedia patch soon, the change >>> would ride Firefox's Nightly, Aurora, and Beta release channels [3] and be >>> released to the general public in Firefox 16 (October 2012). >>> >> Please don't do so. HTTPS is a new service, and we haven't properly >> load tested it yet. The first target for production load testing is >> for logged-in users. >> >> I'm not opposed to the change completely, but I'd prefer to let you >> guys know when we're ready. >> >> Thanks, >> >> - Ryan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
