[pmwiki-users] Quick/easy way to check if page is passwd protected?

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 04:28:57PM +0100, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Ben Wilson wrote:
> > > I have a script that allows me to edit PmWiki pages without using a web
> > > browser. However, since some pages may be read or edit protected. Right
> > > now, every time I go to a site, I send the authentication information,
> > > even if it is not needed, because I have no way to determine if
> > > authentication is needed.
> > 
> > Going on a tangent here, I wonder if it'd make sense for me to adapt
> > pmwiki-mode in Emacs to use the same script. The advantage would be to
> > have a single mechanism to access a page rather than both of us
> > implementing the same thing twice. In addition, this script then of course
> > works with arbitrary editors.
> 
> This is a good idea.
> 
> > PS. There's also something called 'libCurl' for use with programs.
> 
> In fact, I just noticed that libCurl is built-in to PHP on my site. I
> wonder how many PHP installations have libCurl already built-in?

I have no idea unfortunately.

> If it's fairly common, then it ought to be relatively easy for us to
> create a command-line PHP script that can grab page text and post edits
> (and handle passwords appropriately).

But do people in general have PHP installed? This script would run on the
user's machine, not the server. I don't on my laptop for instance, 
although that does have a rather old installation (RedHat 7.3...)

At least initially, I was just thinking of a BASH script that invokes
curl. I was also thinking of making a script called something like
'pmwiki-upload.sh' for making it easy to upload/download attachments.
Actually, I even started on it but ran out of time.

For windows users, I guess PHP is even less likely to be available...  
There is a curl for Windows though. Of course, you're not likely to have 
bash there...

Still, I think it'd be a good start just to be able to use 'curl' to 
access pages in a "robust" way.

/Christian

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