[pmwiki-users] Re: Another problem with URLapprove

[chr at home.se]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 02:46:34PM +0200, chr at home.se wrote:
> > So I think the error message needs to be changed... perhaps it could
> > say something like:
> > 
> > 	Your changes were not permitted because they contain to many
> > 	new external links. Please approve the links on the page
> > 	before editing this page further.
> 
> Well, part of the reason for the cryptic message is to reduce the
> amount of information available to a spammer.  If we simply say "post
> blocked by administrator", a spammer is left guessing at the mechanism
> why.
> 
> > Btw, this problem with too many unapproved links on a page that you
> > try to edit would be even more confusing to someone who is not even 
> > trying to add an external link.
> 
> ...except that in this case the message wouldn't appear -- presumably
> if the page had been successfully saved previously then it will save
> again if the number of unapproved links hasn't changed.

--- See my earlier post.

An alternative way to test this behaviour is if you activate urlapprove
for this page

	http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/ExternalLinks

with abt 15 external links, and then try to make a simple change to it.

/Christian

-- 
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr