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diff --git a/doc/todo/avoid_attachement_ui_if_upload_not_allowed.mdwn b/doc/todo/avoid_attachement_ui_if_upload_not_allowed.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..487915850 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/avoid_attachement_ui_if_upload_not_allowed.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Any way to make it so an edit page doesn't offer the attachment capability +unless it matches a specific user, is an admin, and/or is an allowed page? +(For now, I have it on all pages, and then it prohibits after I submit +based on the allowed_attachments.) + +> To do that, ikiwiki would have to try to match the `allowed_attachments` +> pagespec against a sort of dummy upload to the current page. Then if it +> failed, assume all real uploads would fail. Now consider a pagespec like +> "user(joey) and mimetype(audio/mpeg)" -- it'd be hard to make a dummy +> upload to test this pagespec against. +> +> So, there would need to be some sort of test mode, where terms like +> `mimetype()` always succeed. But then consider a pagespec like +> "user(joey) and !mimetype(video/mpeg)" -- if mimetype succeeds, this +> fails. +> +> So, maybe we can instead just filter out all the pagespec terms aside +> from `user()`, `ip()`, and `admin()`. Transforming that into just +> "user(joey)", which would succeed in the test. +> +> That'd work, I guess. Pulling a pagespec apart, filtering out terms, and +> putting it back together is nontrivial, but doable. +> +> Other approach would be to have a separate pagespec that explicitly +> controlls what pages to show the attachment UI on. --[[Joey]] |