[pmwiki-users] Adding something like '?action=version'? (Was: Version of Pmwiki)

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:


> One reason why PmWiki hasn't provided something like this by default is 
> that some administrators would prefer that PmWiki version information 
> not be easily available to others (especially malicious programs).

Do you think such an administrator will manage to remove the {$Version} 
from the page PmWiki.PmWiki?  (I probably wouldn't think of it, although I 
might think about searching the wiki for "{$Version}". Oh, and I'd have to 
disallow the public from editing, or they can just insert {$Version} 
themselves).

Maybe what a paranoid administrator really needs is a setting
 	$EnablePmWikiVersionInfo
that can be disabled to stop showing the version in any way?

> So, if we did have an ?action=version or similar, I think it would
> need to default to 'edit' permissions at a minimum.
>
> I'm also not sure that having ?action=version solves the problem... is 
> an administrator likely to stumble upon ?action=version without having 
> to consult the docs or ask the mailing list?

The reason I suggested ?action=version was twofold... to be honest, I 
don't think a regular administrator would remember that. However, being 
able to learn the PmWiki version might be something that pmwiki-mode 
requires in the future.  So what pmwiki-mode needs is really any method 
that allows to determine the version info ... hmm, actually it's probably 
more like the version of PmWiki's API.

/Christian

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