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 January 2016 at 06:27, Derek Hohls <dho...@csir.co.za> wrote: > 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 <fos...@schucker.org> 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 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 > someone liked. > > Thanks! > > Foster > On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 19:09:43 +0100, Harry Metske > <harry.met...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 <fos...@schucker.org> > wrote: > > > 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 this before, no sense in reinventing the wheel. > > > > In a perfect world it would spit out [PageName] URL ResponseCode > for each > > URL (that would let me catch other errors like forbidden, etc. > but I'd be > > happy to get the ones that don't produce a 200. > > > > Thanks! > > Foster > > > > > > > > -- > This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, > e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. > The full disclaimer details can be found at > http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. > > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by > MailScanner, > and is believed to be clean. > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > > -- > This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, > e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. > The full disclaimer details can be found at > http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. > > > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by > *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, > and is believed to be clean. > > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > >
