[pmwiki-users] RFC -- POP3 to PmWiki

Crisses crisses at kinhost.org
Thu Oct 5 12:30:03 CDT 2006


On Oct 5, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> I was thinking of using the existing API -- i.e.,
> ?action=source and ?action=edit, or the upcoming ?action=insert.
> I haven't seen a case where we'd need much in the way of additional
> code on the receiving wiki -- am I forgetting something?  Or, put
> another way, what pieces do the existing actions not provide?


the biggie:
Remote authentication for edit-passworded pages

So I was thinking in terms of a specific action= that would handle  
receiving authentication information of some type --

username
passcode (people can give the wikiserver a specific passcode -- not  
their personal password -- to say "it's ok to post this")
group/pagename
body

Better yet, pass an array for those last two:

array ( 'group/pagename' => 'body');

And a single authentication/HTTP request can add/append/replace  
several snippets of text to different pages.

?action=posts

There are probably other applications for which this would be  
useful.  Imagine wikis able to PUSH data around.  It would need to be  
executed with care, though, otherwise you'll have one wikispammer who  
posts at one site only to find it replicated at a dozen sites.  Also,  
it's bad SEO to repeat data on multiple sites.


Crisses
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