On 25 May 2010 15:30, Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > church.of.emacs.ml wrote: >> However, you'd have to worry that each distant wiki uses only a fair >> amount of the home wiki server's resources. E.g. set a limit of >> inclusions (that limit would have to be on the home-wiki-server-side) >> and disallow infinite loops (they're always fun). > > Infinite loops could only happen if both wikis can fetch from the other > one. A simple solution would be to pass with the query who requested it > originally. If the home wiki calls a different wiki, it would blame the > one who asked for it (or maybe building a wiki + template path). >
or request can have something like a deep counter, to stop request that need more than N iterations. So if you get a request with deep > 20, you can ignore that request. This don't stop a evil wiki passing a false deep level, but the idea of interwiki is a network built on top of the www of wikis you trusth, so you will not add a evil wiki -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
