4 subject="RE: comment 1"
5 date="2012-01-15T23:49:49Z"
7 I've modified the plugin adding the possibility of indexing attachments. Only
8 PDF attachments for now, but support for other filetypes should be real easy to add.
10 The changes to `IkiWiki/Plugin/search.pm` are available at
11 <http://git.devnull.li/ikiwiki.git>, in the `srchatt` branch.
13 I have a small question about filenames and security: I'm using `qx` to execute
14 the program that extracts the text from the PDF files, but `qx` executes a
15 whole string, and passes it not to the program I want to run, but to a shell,
16 so it is possible (I think) to craft a filename that, in a shell, expands to
19 How do the Perl/IkiWiki experts suggest to handle these potentially unsafe
20 filenames? I've thought of the following options:
22 * Running the text extractor program using `Proc::Safe`. I could not find a
23 Debian package for it, and I'd rather avoid adding another dependency to
25 * Running the text extractor program as suggested in the `perlipc` document,
26 using `fork` + `exec`.
28 I haven't done any of those because I'd like to check if there are any helpers
29 in IkiWiki to do this. Perhaps the `IkiWiki::possibly_foolish_untaint` function
30 does it? (I didn't really understand what it does...)