(I've written a [[proposal|todo/fileupload/soc-proposal]] for this feature --Ben).
Support for uploading files is useful for many circumstances:
- Uploading images.
- Uploading local.css files (admin only).
- Uploading mp3s for podcasts.
- Etc.
ikiwiki should have an easy to use interface for this, but the real meat of
the work is in securing it. Several classes of controls seem appropriate:
-
Limits to size of files that can be uploaded. Prevent someone spamming
the wiki with CD isos..
-
Limits to the type of files that can be uploaded. To prevent uploads of
virii, css, raw html etc, and avoid file types that are not safe.
Should default to excluding all files types, or at least all
except a very limited set, and should be able to open it up to more
types.
Would checking for file extensions (.gif, .jpg) etc be enough? Some
browsers are probably too smart for their own good and may ignore the
extension / mime info and process as the actual detected file type. It
may be necessary to use file to determine a file's true type.
-
Optional ability to test a file using a virus scanner like clamav.
-
Limits to who can upload what type of files.
-
Limits to what files can be uploaded where.
It seems that for max flexability, rules should be configurable by the admin
to combine these limits in different ways. If we again extend the pagespec
for this, as was done for [[conditional_text_based_on_ikiwiki_features]],
the rules might look something like this:
( maxsize(30kb) and type(webimage) ) or
( user(joey) and maxsize(1mb) and (type(webimage) or *.mp3) ) or
( user(joey) and maxsize(200mb) and (*.mov or *.avi) and videos/*)
With a small extension, this could even be used to limit the max sizes of
normal wiki pages, which could be useful if someone was abusing an open wiki
as a wikifs. Maybe.
( type(page) and maxsize(32k) )
And if that's done, it can also be used to lock users from editing a pages
or the whole wiki:
!(( user(spammer) and * ) or
( user(42.12.*) and * ) or
( user(http://evilopenidserver/*) and * ) or
( user(annoying) and index) or
( immutable_page ))
That would obsolete the current simple admin prefs for banned users and
locked pages. Suddenly all the access controls live in one place.
Wonderbar!
[[tag soc]]
