Re: [xwiki-users] File Explorer for Unix FS
Best would be to post it somewhere on http://code.xwiki.org/ :-) Guillaume On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 07:46, Thomas Hoeschele thoesch...@gmx.de wrote: Hallo Carlos, would you share your code with us (or with me)? I was just about to implement something similar, so maybe your code would help me reducing the work I have to do. Thank you in Advance. Thomas Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 20:27:48 -0500 Von: Carlos Correa carloscorrea...@gmail.com An: XWiki Users users@xwiki.org Betreff: Re: [xwiki-users] File Explorer for Unix FS This is a bit of a late reply, but I've implemented this and am wondering what you would recommend doing about security with this approach. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu ser...@xwiki.com wrote: On 07/15/2010 04:55 PM, Carlos Correa wrote: One of the users of the xwiki server (*nix) that I'm helping with has an interesting feature request. He wants a wiki page with a listing of Microsoft Office files that are in a unix directory. He wants to be able to click on one of the file names and have it download. I don't know enough about xwiki to know how to cause a download to occur on the user's side. The only solution I can think of is attaching the files to the page and scripting regular updating (which is very clunky). Is there a more elegant way to cause downloads to occur on the user's end without adding the file as an attachment? Well, XWiki is a java application, so the easiest thing to do is to write a Java component that does this. Assuming you have a recent version of XWiki, you should: - write a scriptable service which can list the files on the filesystem; should be a ScriptService component if you're targeting XWiki 2.3 or later, or a VelocityContextInitializer for earlier; see http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Modules/ComponentModule for general documentation about components - write a servlet or a struts action which can be used to retrieve the contents of the file; make sure you're not creating a security hole, check the absolute path requested by the user; a good example would be http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/core/trunk/xwiki-core/src/main/java/com/xpn/xwiki/web/TempResourceAction.java - register the above servlet/struts action in web.xml, respectively struts-config.xml -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Neu: GMX De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/demail ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] File Explorer for Unix FS
This is a bit of a late reply, but I've implemented this and am wondering what you would recommend doing about security with this approach. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu ser...@xwiki.com wrote: On 07/15/2010 04:55 PM, Carlos Correa wrote: One of the users of the xwiki server (*nix) that I'm helping with has an interesting feature request. He wants a wiki page with a listing of Microsoft Office files that are in a unix directory. He wants to be able to click on one of the file names and have it download. I don't know enough about xwiki to know how to cause a download to occur on the user's side. The only solution I can think of is attaching the files to the page and scripting regular updating (which is very clunky). Is there a more elegant way to cause downloads to occur on the user's end without adding the file as an attachment? Well, XWiki is a java application, so the easiest thing to do is to write a Java component that does this. Assuming you have a recent version of XWiki, you should: - write a scriptable service which can list the files on the filesystem; should be a ScriptService component if you're targeting XWiki 2.3 or later, or a VelocityContextInitializer for earlier; see http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Modules/ComponentModule for general documentation about components - write a servlet or a struts action which can be used to retrieve the contents of the file; make sure you're not creating a security hole, check the absolute path requested by the user; a good example would be http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/core/trunk/xwiki-core/src/main/java/com/xpn/xwiki/web/TempResourceAction.java - register the above servlet/struts action in web.xml, respectively struts-config.xml -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] File Explorer for Unix FS
Hallo Carlos, would you share your code with us (or with me)? I was just about to implement something similar, so maybe your code would help me reducing the work I have to do. Thank you in Advance. Thomas Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 20:27:48 -0500 Von: Carlos Correa carloscorrea...@gmail.com An: XWiki Users users@xwiki.org Betreff: Re: [xwiki-users] File Explorer for Unix FS This is a bit of a late reply, but I've implemented this and am wondering what you would recommend doing about security with this approach. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu ser...@xwiki.com wrote: On 07/15/2010 04:55 PM, Carlos Correa wrote: One of the users of the xwiki server (*nix) that I'm helping with has an interesting feature request. He wants a wiki page with a listing of Microsoft Office files that are in a unix directory. He wants to be able to click on one of the file names and have it download. I don't know enough about xwiki to know how to cause a download to occur on the user's side. The only solution I can think of is attaching the files to the page and scripting regular updating (which is very clunky). Is there a more elegant way to cause downloads to occur on the user's end without adding the file as an attachment? Well, XWiki is a java application, so the easiest thing to do is to write a Java component that does this. Assuming you have a recent version of XWiki, you should: - write a scriptable service which can list the files on the filesystem; should be a ScriptService component if you're targeting XWiki 2.3 or later, or a VelocityContextInitializer for earlier; see http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Modules/ComponentModule for general documentation about components - write a servlet or a struts action which can be used to retrieve the contents of the file; make sure you're not creating a security hole, check the absolute path requested by the user; a good example would be http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/core/trunk/xwiki-core/src/main/java/com/xpn/xwiki/web/TempResourceAction.java - register the above servlet/struts action in web.xml, respectively struts-config.xml -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Neu: GMX De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/demail ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] File Explorer for Unix FS
Caleb James DeLisle calebdeli...@... writes: You might have a look at the file upload plugin, it allows files to be put on the server (and downloaded from it) without being attachments which take up space in the database. How to use it? Is there any frontend available? -- If you want to get to the top, you have to start at the bottom ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
[xwiki-users] File Explorer for Unix FS
One of the users of the xwiki server (*nix) that I'm helping with has an interesting feature request. He wants a wiki page with a listing of Microsoft Office files that are in a unix directory. He wants to be able to click on one of the file names and have it download. I don't know enough about xwiki to know how to cause a download to occur on the user's side. The only solution I can think of is attaching the files to the page and scripting regular updating (which is very clunky). Is there a more elegant way to cause downloads to occur on the user's end without adding the file as an attachment? Thanks, Carlos ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] File Explorer for Unix FS
You might have a look at the file upload plugin, it allows files to be put on the server (and downloaded from it) without being attachments which take up space in the database. Caleb Carlos Correa wrote: One of the users of the xwiki server (*nix) that I'm helping with has an interesting feature request. He wants a wiki page with a listing of Microsoft Office files that are in a unix directory. He wants to be able to click on one of the file names and have it download. I don't know enough about xwiki to know how to cause a download to occur on the user's side. The only solution I can think of is attaching the files to the page and scripting regular updating (which is very clunky). Is there a more elegant way to cause downloads to occur on the user's end without adding the file as an attachment? Thanks, Carlos ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] File Explorer for Unix FS
On 07/15/2010 04:55 PM, Carlos Correa wrote: One of the users of the xwiki server (*nix) that I'm helping with has an interesting feature request. He wants a wiki page with a listing of Microsoft Office files that are in a unix directory. He wants to be able to click on one of the file names and have it download. I don't know enough about xwiki to know how to cause a download to occur on the user's side. The only solution I can think of is attaching the files to the page and scripting regular updating (which is very clunky). Is there a more elegant way to cause downloads to occur on the user's end without adding the file as an attachment? Well, XWiki is a java application, so the easiest thing to do is to write a Java component that does this. Assuming you have a recent version of XWiki, you should: - write a scriptable service which can list the files on the filesystem; should be a ScriptService component if you're targeting XWiki 2.3 or later, or a VelocityContextInitializer for earlier; see http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Modules/ComponentModule for general documentation about components - write a servlet or a struts action which can be used to retrieve the contents of the file; make sure you're not creating a security hole, check the absolute path requested by the user; a good example would be http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/core/trunk/xwiki-core/src/main/java/com/xpn/xwiki/web/TempResourceAction.java - register the above servlet/struts action in web.xml, respectively struts-config.xml -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
