[pmwiki-users] Keeping recipes up to date

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:35:58PM +0100, Anno wrote:
> > However, the recipeupdates.php script requires that PHP be configured
> > to allow url fopens, and many web hosting providers have this
> > capability turned off as a security precaution.
> 
> You could circumvent this by incorporating something like this:
> http://www.bitfolge.de/befopen-en.html

I often wondered if someone would ever write a library to
circumvent allow_url_fopen by going directly to the sockets.

I think PmWikiPhilosophy #3 applies here -- before writing too
much code to deal with this situation I think I'll wait and see
how many people are really impacted by it.  And there's always
the avenue of using PmWiki.SiteAnalyzer, which doesn't require
fopen on the target system.

Along similar lines, the blocklist.php script uses url-based
fopen for automatically downloading blocklists, but I haven't
heard of many instances of sites not being able to use the
automatic downloads.  (Perhaps nobody's using them, or they're
just going unreported.)

Thanks!

Pm