[pmwiki-users] Regarding searching/indexing your wiki site

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:17:09AM +0100, chr at home.se wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Came across this article on slashdot
> 	http://www.webappsec.org/articles/022805-plain.html
> 
> Basically it is about what we've experienced with the normal search
> function in pmwiki, i.e. that you can extract information about a page
> even though you don't have read access to it. They recommend using
> search/index engines that crawl your site instead of running locally.

PmWiki's current design means that a search/index engine would basically
be required to crawl the site rather than access pages locally
(since the pages aren't available as formatted text anywhere locally).
So I don't think it's a big issue.

Pm