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[Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 11-06-02 05:56 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Alternatively or in addition, perhaps there's a clever feature flag tweak we can do, like looking for a browser cookie that we insert manually in our browsers, or something.
> 
> Exactly!
> 
> One of the unrealised intentions of flags was allowing soft-launches
> including anonymous users. There are two problems:
>  - our caching story is probably too aggressive
>  - we don't have glue to define stuff yet.
> 
> (sketch)
> 1) Teach apache to let requests with a cookie like LP_FEATURES through
> squid - that is, only treat *other* cookies as needing to bypass
> squid.
> 2)
> Have a scope 'fraction' which takes a %:
> advancedsubscriptions.enabled fraction 0 5%

Hmm, when I saw this, I thought it was a mechanism that would allow for
devs to control features on staging for *themselves*, by setting a cookie.

Perhaps also an interesting idea?

Aaron
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