[tei-council] Uploading files to the WIKI (fwd)

[David Sewell]

I am getting the same error message. But it is totally ignorable, no?

Here is all that I did:

1) Click "Upload file" in sidebar.

2) Upload a random XML file on my machine called Test.xml

3) The file uploads, and produces a file page that indeed contains an ominous 
warning:

http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/File:Test.xml

but it doesn't prevent the file from being opened:

http://wiki.tei-c.org/images/d/d1/Test.xml

or referenced:

http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/User:DavidSewell

(click on link in last line).

If an ordinary registered user can do that, we have no problem, I think.

David

On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, James Cummings wrote:

> 
> Bah I've hacked and hacked and hacked and not been able to solve this.
> 
> I went through includes/SpecialUpload.php commenting out *all* the checks it 
> does on mimetype, on whether it is an HTML file, javascript, etc. ...  ihad 
> huge functions  doing absolutely nothing but returning that everything was 
> ok.
> 
> *still* same error message.
> 
> I give up until after the members meeting if you or shayne haven't fixed it 
> by then. ;-)
> 
> -James
> 
> 
> On 04/11/12 18:46, David Sewell wrote:
>> James,
>> 
>> Thanks for tweaking the MediaWiki settings! And if anyone
>> continues to have problems uploading files that should be
>> legitimately accepted we can investigate further.
>> 
>> On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, James Cummings wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> David (Council CC'ed),
>>> 
>>> This is actually a different problem. We've always had the
>>> permitted file types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, ogg, zip, xsl, xml,
>>> dtd, odd, rnc, rng, txt, pdf. It is just an earlier upgrade on
>>> media wiki introduced script checking where it (falsely)
>>> identifies TEI files as potentially dodgy HTML or javascript.
>>> I've not investigated how it does this check and why it is
>>> failing, but found a number of reported  bugs about it.
>>> 
>>> I've set $wgDisableUploadScriptChecks to true, and explicitly
>>> marked non-registered users as not being able to upload (though
>>> I think this was our default any way).  Piotr and Kevin will
>>> probably advise if this results in people who shouldn't being
>>> able to upload files.
>>> 
>>> It allowed me to, but I might have special powers.
>>> 
>>> Lou: We're not talking about uploading and processing TEI files
>>> of any particular type, but just uploading XML files in the
>>> same way you might upload PDFs or PNGs, etc.  Frankly if I was
>>> Martin I'd probably just link to the XML file provided elsewhere.
>>> 
>>> -James
>>> 
>>> On 04/11/12 13:52, David Sewell wrote:
>>>> During the last upgrade of the TEI wiki, we ran into a PHP issue
>>>> or two that required changes to files on the server that were
>>>> root-access only, meaning Shayne needed to intervene. If that's
>>>> the case this time, a fix will probably need to wait until
>>>> Monday. But I'll take a look at things when I can today--may not
>>>> be until evening as I have a commitment earlier.
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, Piotr Bański wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Martin,
>>>>> 
>>>>> It might have been inadvertently changed during the upgrade of
>>>>> the wiki
>>>>> software (veeery useful, it fixed a few problems, spambots among
>>>>> others). David has done a great wizarding job on that,
>>>>> hopefully he can
>>>>> help with the file upload issue as well.
>>>>>
>>>>>  P.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 04/11/12 03:19, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm working on my Prefix Definition Proposal on the wiki, and
>>>>>> I've
>>>>>> drafted a new section of the Guidelines that I wanted to
>>>>>> include as part
>>>>>> of the proposal. This is a regular TEI file, including a div
>>>>>> which could
>>>>>> be inserted into the SA chapter. It's obviously easier to
>>>>>> write it
>>>>>> directly in TEI, and then insert it into the chapter if and
>>>>>> when it gets
>>>>>> approval, than to draft it in a word-processor and then have
>>>>>> to tag it
>>>>>> up afterwards.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I wanted to upload this to the wiki so people could vet it,
>>>>>> but when I
>>>>>> tried to upload it as an XML file, the wiki said:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "This file contains HTML or script code that may be erroneously
>>>>>> interpreted by a web browser."
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So I tried zipping it up (as I've done before with a script
>>>>>> file). This
>>>>>> time, it said:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "Files of the MIME type "application/zip" are not allowed to
>>>>>> be uploaded."
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> But the wiki upload page also says:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "Permitted file types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, ogg, zip, xsl,
>>>>>> xml, dtd,
>>>>>> odd, rnc, rng, txt, pdf."
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> In other words, it's supposed to be able to accept both XML
>>>>>> and zip
>>>>>> files, but it won't. Someone or something must have changed
>>>>>> the settings
>>>>>> since I last uploaded a zip file last year, but not changed
>>>>>> the text of
>>>>>> the page which explains the limitations.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I think a TEI wiki that doesn't allow us to upload XML files
>>>>>> is a bit
>>>>>> ridiculous. Could we get this changed?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Martin
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
>

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