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]]
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->> 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]]
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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:
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]]
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