This delays all comment formatting until the last possible time, allows
us to set metadata without worrying that commenters may be able to evade
it, and means that changes to how a comment is saved can be handled
gracefully. It also gives us somewhere to put the commenter's username
or IP address for later reference.
Not compacting whitespace is the most important one: now that we run
sanitize hooks on individual posted comments in the comments plugin,
whitespace that is significant to Markdown (but not HTML) is lost.
This should ensure that users can't "break out" from the enclosing
<div>, making it impossible to forge comments (assuming htmlscrubber
is enabled, and so is either htmlbalance or htmltidy).
wikilinks are harmless, so we might as well allow them.
Access control for this plugin is a bit odd, since we specifically
don't want to allow comments to be edited - so the check is whether the
user is allowed to edit a deliberately invalid page name,
page/commented/on[smcvpostcomment]. You can put smcvpostcomment(*)
or smcvpostcomment(some/subdir/*) in $config{anonok_pagespec}
or the opposite in $config{locked_pages} to allow "editing" (really
just posting) comments.
I wanted this nearer to the top, but decided to put it after the
add_depends. Reasoning: It's possible with a combinaton of feedpages and
show options to make @list and @feedlist contain completly differing sets
of pages. We want to add_depends all pages in both sets. We could combine
the two lists and add_depends that, but it's slightly more efficient to
defer reducing @feedlist, and add_depends whichever list is longer.
holger reported that decode_utf8 was crashing with perl 5.8.8. Earlier, I
thought that passing 0 to the function avoided this with old perls, but
that was apparently not enough, it still crashes. So, put it inside the
eval, so we can at least recover from it crashing.
The old code actually did the same thing, just obfuscated -- since the eval
use wasn't quoted, it used the modules on load. Thus, the error (not to
mentioned the return) was bypassed, and it just failed on load.
But that seems like the right thing to do, really, so just made it clearer
that's what happens.
Simon McVittie
Joey Hess