That looks pretty fancy I must say ! On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 7:54 PM Ori Livneh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > A short while ago, the SRE Traffic team enabled > <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/823656> > query-string normalization for MediaWiki.org. This means that the caching > layer (Varnish, specifically) now rewrites the query string portion of > request URLs, so that query parameters are sorted by key. The re-written > URL is then used for the cache look-up and (if necessary) the backend > request. This improves the efficiency of the cache, since it allows > logically-equivalent requests with different URL forms to be served by a > single cache entry. > > For example, this URL: > https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Squid&action=history > > Is re-written as: > https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?action=history&title=Squid > > Care has been taken to make the sort stable for duplicate keys, and to > handle PHP array syntax (?foo[]=a&foo[]=b) correctly. > > MediaWiki.org is the first wiki that gets real traffic where this is > enabled. If you encounter any weirdness, please file a task > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/43/?parent=314868&template=314868&status=open>. > If everything looks good, we'll proceed with an incremental roll-out to > other wikis. This is tracked in T314868 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314868>. > > Cheers > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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