From: http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/ Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:56:36 +0000 (-0500) Subject: (no commit message) X-Git-Tag: 2.71~210^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e69095504cb36705494b43d134cea6745755e4ba;p=ikiwiki.git --- diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/comments.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/comments.mdwn index 891d3dee5..ef067f4d0 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/comments.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/comments.mdwn @@ -10,33 +10,6 @@ or [[htmlbalance]]. Directives are filtered out by default, to avoid commenters down the wiki by causing time-consuming processing. As long as the recommended plugins are enabled, comment authorship should hopefully be unforgeable by CGI users. -> I'm not sure that raw html should be a problem, as long as the -> htmlsanitizer and htmlbalanced plugins are enabled. I can see filtering -> out directives, as a special case. --[[Joey]] - ->> Right, if I sanitize each post individually, with htmlscrubber and either htmltidy ->> or htmlbalance turned on, then there should be no way the user can forge a comment; ->> I was initially wary of allowing meta directives, but I think those are OK, as long ->> as the comment template puts the \[[!meta author]] at the *end*. Disallowing ->> directives is more a way to avoid commenters causing expensive processing than ->> anything else, at this point. ->> ->> I've rebased the plugin on master, made it sanitize individual posts' content ->> and removed the option to disallow raw HTML. Sanitizing individual posts before ->> they've been htmlized required me to preserve whitespace in the htmlbalance ->> plugin, so I did that. Alternatively, we could htmlize immediately and always ->> save out raw HTML? --[[smcv]] - ->> There might be some use cases for other directives, such as img, in ->> comments. ->> ->> I don't know if meta is "safe" (ie, guaranteed to be inexpensive and not ->> allow users to do annoying things) or if it will continue to be in the ->> future. Hard to predict really, all that can be said with certainty is ->> all directives will contine to be inexpensive and safe enough that it's ->> sensible to allow users to (ab)use them on open wikis. ->> --[[Joey]] - The plugin adds a new [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] match type, `postcomment`, for use with `anonok_pagespec` from the [[plugins/anonok]] plugin or `locked_pages` from the [[plugins/lockedit]] plugin. Typical usage would be something like: @@ -70,9 +43,10 @@ and is currently available from [[smcv]]'s git repository on git.pseudorandom.co Known issues: * Needs code review -* The access control via postcomment() is rather strange +* The access control via postcomment() is rather strange (see [[discussion]] for more details) * There is some common code cargo-culted from other plugins (notably inline and editpage) which should probably be shared +* Joey doesn't think it should necessarily use internal pages (see [[discussion]]) > I haven't done a detailed code review, but I will say I'm pleased you > avoided re-implementing inline! --[[Joey]] @@ -85,3 +59,9 @@ Wishlist: as someone else (even if anonymous comments are allowed, it'd be nice to be able to choose to log in with a username or OpenID, like in Livejournal); perhaps editpage needs this too + +Fixed issues: + +* Joey didn't think the `\[[!comments]]` directive was appropriate; comments now appear + on pages selected with a [[ikiwiki/pagespec]] +* Joey thought that raw HTML should always be allowed; it now is