On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 01:00:38AM -0700, Gergo Tisza wrote:
> That does not sound like a big deal since we are loading most Javascript
> files from our own servers, and can fully control what headers are set, but
> we ran into occasional problems in the past when using CORS (MediaViewer
> uses CORS-enabled image loading to get access to certain performance
> statistics): some people use proxies or firewalls which strip CORS headers
> from the responses as some sort of misguided security effort, causing the
> request to fail. We wanted to know how many users would be affected by this
> if we loaded ResourceLoader scripts via CORS.

For Wikimedia sites, it is now impossible for proxies or firewalls to
strip headers, after the switch to HTTPS-only. Was this analysis done
before or during the HTTPS-only migration?

Faidon

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