And avoid a whole class of potential security problems (though
none that I know of actually existing..), by avoiding
performing any string interpolation on user-supplied data when translating
pagespecs.
This is sorta an optimisation, and sorta a bug fix. In one
test case I have available, it can speed a page build up from 3
minutes to 3 seconds.
The root of the problem is that $links{$page} contains arrays of
links, rather than hashes of links. And when a link is found,
it is just pushed onto the array, without checking for dups.
Now, the array is emptied before scanning a page, so there
should not be a lot of opportunity for lots of duplicate links
to pile up in it. But, in some cases, they can, and if there
are hundreds of duplicate links in the array, then scanning it
for matching links, as match_link and some other code does,
becomes much more expensive than it needs to be.
Perhaps the real right fix would be to change the data structure
to a hash. But, the list of links is never accessed like that,
you always want to iterate through it.
I also looked at deduping the list in saveindex, but that does
a lot of unnecessary work, and doesn't completly solve the problem.
So, finally, I decided to add an add_link function that handles deduping,
and make ikiwiki-transition remove the old dup links.
When finding the pageurl, it was calling bestlink unnecessarily.
Since at this point $page contains the full name of the page that
is being inlined, there is no need to do bestlink's scan
for it.
This is only a minor optimisation, since bestlink is only called
once per displayed, inlined page.
* pagespec_match_list: New API function, matches pages in a list
and throws an error if the pagespec is bad.
* inline, brokenlinks, calendar, linkmap, map, orphans, pagecount,
pagestate, postsparkline: Display a handy error message if the pagespec
is erronious.
* Add IkiWiki::ErrorReason objects, and modify pagespecs to return
them in cases where they fail to match due to a configuration or syntax
error.
* inline: Display a handy error message if the inline cannot display any
pages due to such an error.
This is perhaps somewhat incomplete, as other users of pagespecs do not
display the error, and will eventually need similar modifications to inline.
I should probably factor out a pagespec_match_all function and make it throw
ErrorReasons.
If the server has a clock running a bit ahead of the web browsing client,
relativedate could cause somewhat confusing displays like "3 seconds from now"
for just posted things.
As a hack, avoid displaying times in the future if they're less than a
small slip forward. I chose 30 minutes because both client and server could
be wrong in different directions, while it's still close enough that "just
now" is not horribly wrong.
This works around an enormous (and, in this context, enormously confusing)
message that git has begun to print when one attempts to push changes into
a non-bare repo.
As a bonus, it now tests whether ikiwiki-makerepo works.
Well, that was a PITA.
Luckily, this doesn't break guids to comments in rss feeds,
though it does change the links.
I haven't put in a warning about needing to rebuild to get
this fix. It's probably good enough for new comments to get the
fix, without a lot of mass rebuilding.
If an inlined page contains a floating element, this ensures
that the footer appears beneath it, and prevents the floating element from
possibly leaking down to the next inlined page.
It would be better to use urlto() here, but will_render
has not yet been called on the feed files at this point, so
it won't work. (And reorganizing so it can be is tricky.)
The problem was introduced by the recent noextension patches.
Object autovivification caused junk to get into %htmlize,
and all keys of that showed up as page types.
I guess what's happening here is that since the name
is passed to git via an environment variable, perl's normal
utf-8 IO layer stuff doesn't work. So we have to explicitly
decode the string from perl's internal representation into
utf-8.
Joey Hess