What security issues does this present?
Remember, the link targets have been selected by the wiki authors so they
are desirable links rather than spam. I can't quite see a threat model if
all you're doing is reporting a HTTP status code. Isn't this what search
engines do by default?
On 4 Januar
There seem to be any number of tools out there... have you seen:
https://wummel.github.io/linkchecker/
(showing my bias towards Python)
>>> Foster Schucker 12/28/15 8:39 PM >>>
Thanks. I didn't think there was a way in JSPWiki to do that. I was on
the look for a tool that was smart enough to
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dead links.
Cheers,
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Juan Pablo Santos RodrÃguez [mailto:juanpablo.san...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 30 December 2015 4:15 AM
To: user@jspwiki.apache.org
Subject: Re: A way to find dead links for external pages
Hi,
we bundle, as an example, not inten
Hi,
we bundle, as an example, not intended for production use, a
PingWeblogscomFilter [#1], which pings weblog.com on each page save (a much
older, similar approach on [#2]). A plugin, performing similar
functionality, could be easily made and placed on a protected wikipage, or
better, perform the
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Harry Metske
wrote:
>
> We considered it a security risk and did not implement it.
Having a server go blindly into user-specified URLs is indeed a huge
security risk. Users could easily create a denial of service (listing
hundreds of URLs) either for the target o
Thanks. I didn't think there was a way in JSPWiki to do that. I was on
the look for a tool that was smart enough to do the walk and only report
back on external sites/links. I figured with the number of people on
this list that do that I could get a quick recommendation of a tool that
someo
There has been a discussion about this before:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-330
We considered it a security risk and did not implement it.
kind regards,
Harry
On 28 December 2015 at 16:14, Foster Schucker wrote:
> I have a wiki that ties into external sites. As these places
I have a wiki that ties into external sites. As these places switch to
new platforms the old links die. (Or they die due to refactoring).
Anyway I'm looking for a way to walk the wiki pages and see if there is
a 200 response back from the other side. I'm guessing one of you have
had to do t
