[Moin-user] Intelligent Moinmoin wiki spam bot

[Tim Bird]

Gnarlodious wrote:
> On 2/18/07, Tim Bird wrote:
> 
>> I have now disallowed
>>uploading .html files on my site.
> 
> How did you do that? I can find no information on it.

I modified MoinMoin/action/AttachFile.py as follows:

--- AttachFile.py.orig  2007-02-20 12:51:30.000000000 +0900
+++ AttachFile.py.new   2007-02-20 12:53:02.000000000 +0900
@@ -492,6 +492,14 @@
      #            ext = ''
      #    target = target + ext

+    # TRB -2/9/2007 - disallow uploading .html files
+    # this is to thwart one obnoxious spammer
+    if target.find(".html") != -1:
+        msg = _("Attachment '%s' not allowed.") % target
+        # return attachment list
+        upload_form(pagename, request, msg)
+       return
+
      # get directory, and possibly create it
      attach_dir = getAttachDir(request, pagename, create=1)
      # save file

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Electronics
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