Proposed hack for iOS API issue

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Index: includes/parser/ParserCache.php
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--- includes/parser/ParserCache.php     (revision 98303)
+++ includes/parser/ParserCache.php     (working copy)
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 
                // idhash seem to mean 'page id' + 'rendering hash' (r3710)
                $pageid = $article->getID();
-               $renderkey = (int)($wgRequest->getVal('action') == 'render');
+               $renderkey = (int)($wgRequest->getVal('action') == 'render') + 2*(int)($wgRequest->getVal('action') == 'parse');
 
                $key = wfMemcKey( 'pcache', 'idhash', "{$pageid}-{$renderkey}!{$hash}" );
                return $key;
Index: includes/Title.php
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--- includes/Title.php  (revision 98303)
+++ includes/Title.php  (working copy)
@@ -951,6 +951,12 @@
                        if ( $wgRequest->getVal( 'action' ) == 'render' ) {
                                $url = $wgServer . $url;
                        }
+
+                       // HACK for iOS issue: expand URLs to absolute in API action=parse
+                       // See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2011-September/002361.html for details
+                       if ( $wgRequest->getVal( 'action' ) == 'parse' ) {
+                               $url = wfExpandUrl( $url, PROTO_CANONICAL );
+                       }
                }
                wfRunHooks( 'GetLocalURL', array( &$this, &$url, $query, $variant ) );
                return $url;