If you want to differentiate categories of API requests in logs, add descriptive noop query params to the requests. I.e &mfmode=2. Doing this in request headers and altering edge config is unnecessary and a bad design pattern. On the analytics side, if parsing query params seems challenging vs. having a fixed field to parse, deal.
On Sunday, February 3, 2013, David Schoonover wrote: > Huh! News to me as well. I definitely agree with that decision. Thanks, > Ori! > > I've already written the Varnish code for setting X-MF-Mode so it can be > captured by varnishncsa. Is there agreement to switch to Mobile-Mode, or at > least, MF-Mode? > > Looking especially to hear from Arthur and Matt. > > -- > David Schoonover > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Diederik van Liere > <[email protected] <javascript:;>>wrote: > > > Thanks Ori, I was not aware of this > > D > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On 2013-02-02, at 16:55, Ori Livneh <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Platonides wrote: > > > > > >> I don't like it's cryptic nature. > > >> > > >> Someone looking at the headers sent to his browser would be very > > >> confused about what's the point of «X-MF-Mode: b». > > >> > > >> Instead something like this would be much more descriptive: > > >> X-Mobile-Mode: stable > > >> X-Mobile-Request: secondary > > >> > > >> But that also means sending more bytes through the wire :S > > > Well, you can (and should) drop the 'X-' :-) > > > > > > See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648: Deprecating the "X-" Prefix > and > > Similar Constructs in Application Protocols > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Ori Livneh > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
