[Pmwiki-users] robots

[bram brambring zonnet]

>On a related item:  Is it a good idea to allow arbitrary meta tags
>to be specified in wiki markup (a la Cookbook.MetaTag)?  I think that a
>malicious wiki author could really wreak havoc on a site with meta tags,
>either by being able to automatically redirect browsers to pornography
>sites or sites that exploit browser vulnerabilities.  I guess it'd be
>okay for sites where editing is limited, but perhaps there ought to
>be some sort of security caution statement added to the MetaTag page
>for people who might not recognize the ramifications of enabling it
>on an open site.

>Pm


Morning,

You are quite right about the security/annoyance issue. However this is part
of the wiki concept. With an automatic refresh tag it's more brutal, but
visitors can already add 'nice' pictures with a link to other pages.

Opinions differ, but my idea is that Meta tags are still important to guide
robots, to get a better ranking.


I didn?t want to touch the core pmwiki.php so it did the MetaTag thing as in
the CookBook.

Maybe it is possible to have a separate piece of text, only editable from
the attr menu. Or that meta tags are only processed when in a group
MetaTag.{pagename}, these files can be included in other pages. And then it?
s easy to protect them.

bram