On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This way it will work for users without cookies (Maybe none exist, but I > > like the idea you can edit wikipedia without cookies) > > > There have been people who disabled cookies and still wanted to be able to > use the sites. > For the good of most, I think it would be acceptable to require a very few to enable cookies to *edit*. > > It will also have minimal breakage, as you won't have to adjust any > > existing usages of tokens (For example, on special pages). > > > > Note it will affect scripts and API clients that expect to see "+\" as the > token as a sign that they're logged out, or worse assume that's the token > and don't bother to fetch it. We had breaking API/frontend infrastructure changes before, this one seems less invasive and will break only badly written clients. In any case, most clients are intended for logged in users. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
