This parameter is actually unnecessary. It was originally added for the HTML5
client, which needs a URL rather than a server, but the URL of the HTML5
client can be deduced, given the server FQDN.
Eliminating the client_url parameter simplifies semantics and allows similar
parameters to be used across different client types.
Coverage increased (+0.2%) to 87.462% when pulling 211755e68ede0b9d6a72eb17c3a02167c0676388 on mtlynch:remove-client-url into a3ee65140dd8d455fd812b392c2ebeca98e4a3e1 on m-lab:master.
This parameter is actually unnecessary. It was originally added for the HTML5 client, which needs a URL rather than a server, but the URL of the HTML5 client can be deduced, given the server FQDN.
Eliminating the client_url parameter simplifies semantics and allows similar parameters to be used across different client types.
This change is