[pmwiki-users] Uninstalling EProtect

[Joachim Durchholz]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 06:00:49PM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have the task of uninstalling EProtect from a PmWiki site.
>> 
>> To my dismay, I found that EProtect would munge the mail addresses
>> when storing to the page storage.
> 
> Ouch.  I suspect that was so that bots couldn't simply get the mail
> addresses from ?action=edit or ?action=source .

So do I.

However, I think it would be better if the links were converted to 
hidden-email: links when loading from the page store, and converted by 
to mailto: links when saving.

What's the best way to hook that up? (eProtect munges the $EditFunctions 
array - is that the right place?)

>> So removing the include_once('eprotect.php') line from config.php
>> leaves me with lots of [[hidden-email:hfre at qbznva.arg]] pages - I
>> know it's ROT13 and easily removed, but it's a lot of pages and I'd
>> like to write a script that does this.
>> 
>> I could go for the quick&dirty method of running sed or awk (Unix 
>> horribilities, for those who don't know them) over the wiki.d
>> directory, but is there a way to have PmWiki load the pages, hand
>> them over to me for modification, then store them back?
> 
> How about this...
> 
> 1.  Write a quick $ROSPattern expression that will convert
>     "hidden-email:rot13" into "mailto:cleartext".  

Needed anyway :-)

> 2.  Do a wiki search to find any pages containing the text "hidden-email".
> 
> 3.  Open each such page for editing.  In Firefox (WinXP) I find it's 
>     very handy to hold down the CTRL while clicking each link, so that
>     the page(s) appear in their own tabs.

Ctrl-click works with any Gecko-based browsers, so it's both Mozilla and 
Firefox on any OS that supports them :-)

> 4.  Save the page.  The $ROSPattern will automatically convert the
>     link upon saving.
> 
> Here's an $ROSPattern that might work (it's untested):

The pattern as given won't work right out of the box since eProtect
accommodates alternate link texts in two syntactic variants, but I can
manage :-)

>     $ROSPattern['/hidden-email:(\\S+)/e'] = "'mailto:'.str_rot13('$1')";

Er... what's a $ROSPattern?

> This is often quickest for 100 pages or less that need editing, if it
> gets to be a lot more than that then you'll probably want another solution.
> 
> Here's another idea, in combination with the $ROSPattern one:
> 
>    Markup('hidden-email', '<mailto', 
>     '/hidden-email:(\\S+)/e',
>     "'mailto:'.str_rot13('$1')";
> 
> This causes all of your pages to appear correctly immediately, and
> coupled with $ROSPatterns they'll slowly be converted to mailto: links
> as they're saved.  (It also helps if any of your authors have become
> used to writing "hidden-email:" links...)

They'll see hidden-email: links anyway, but I don't think they'll write 
them: they's have to manually rot13 them to make it work.

Besides, I'm working on a new version of eProtect where the wiki admin 
can specify arbitrary encodings, so even a browser with a rot13 facility 
won't be of much help anymore :-))

Regards,
Jo