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I would like to allow comments on ikiwiki pages without CGI. I have in mind something like

  • Use a pagetemplate hook
    in a plugin (DONE)

  • add a mailto: url to each page matching some pagespec (currently every page gets a comment footer)

  • this mailto url goes to an address identifying the page (something like user-iki-FE653b@host.fqdn.tld). (DONE)

    I wonder if it would be more or less natural to put an encoded form of the page name in the email address? I'm thinking about something like wikiname+index@host or wikiname+todo+comment_by_mail@host. The basic transformation would be to call titlepage($page) (in the C locale), followed by replacing "/" with "+" (since "/" is not valid in mails). --[[Joey]]

  • on the mail receiving end, these messages are either deleted, or ran through a filter to be turned into blog posts.

    • I'm thinking about how the filter should work. Within a mail client, or as a batch tool to scan a mailbox? How to interact with version control, if at all?
  • the same plugin can check for comments on a particular page next time the wiki is generated, and add a link. (more or less done)

    If the filter just checks in the posts into revision control, the post-commit hook would haldle updating the wiki to include those posts as they come in. --[[Joey]]

  • work in progress can be

Any comments? Write them here or send them to [[DavidBremner]]