From 1cd1f073fff6be0300dec80cf1571ca247ce24ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: joey Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 19:38:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] web commit from 127.0.0.1 --- doc/features.mdwn | 10 ++++++++-- doc/sandbox.mdwn | 4 +++- doc/serverless.mdwn | 3 +++ doc/todo/terminalclient.mdwn | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) create mode 100644 doc/serverless.mdwn diff --git a/doc/features.mdwn b/doc/features.mdwn index 9e9e9195d..1406f5a1b 100644 --- a/doc/features.mdwn +++ b/doc/features.mdwn @@ -38,9 +38,10 @@ Some of ikiwiki's features: unchanged by ikiwiki as it builds your wiki. So you can check in an image, program, or other special file and link to it from your wiki pages. -* [[SubPage]]s +* [[SubPages|SubPage]] - Arbitrarily deep hierarchies of pages with fairly simple and useful [[SubPage/LinkingRules]] + Arbitrarily deep hierarchies of pages with fairly simple and useful + [[SubPage/LinkingRules]] * [[blogging|blog]] @@ -135,6 +136,11 @@ Some of ikiwiki's features: After rather a lot of fiddling, we think that ikiwiki correctly and fully supports utf8 everywhere. +* [[serverless]] mode + + Can be set up so that w3m can be used to browse a wiki and edit pages + without using a web server. + ---- It also has some [[TODO]] items and [[Bugs]]. diff --git a/doc/sandbox.mdwn b/doc/sandbox.mdwn index 6bd9fa072..538d03403 100644 --- a/doc/sandbox.mdwn +++ b/doc/sandbox.mdwn @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ Bulleted list *one *one +hi, mom! + ---- [[haiku hint="sandbox play"]] @@ -67,4 +69,4 @@ Bulleted list This sandbox is also a [[blog]]! -[[inline pages="sandbox/*" rootpage="sandbox" show="5"]] \ No newline at end of file +[[inline pages="sandbox/*" rootpage="sandbox" show="5"]] diff --git a/doc/serverless.mdwn b/doc/serverless.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2cbf6e2f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/serverless.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +It's possible to use all of ikiwiki's web features (page editing, etc) in +the `w3m` web browser without using a web server. `w3m` supports local CGI +scripts, and ikiwiki can be set up to run that way. diff --git a/doc/todo/terminalclient.mdwn b/doc/todo/terminalclient.mdwn index 1a3908305..8c802888b 100644 --- a/doc/todo/terminalclient.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/terminalclient.mdwn @@ -3,4 +3,22 @@ and $EDITOR. Browse around a wiki, select pages to edit and get dropped right into the editor and have the page committed to svn automatically. Less grandiosely, a simple command line util to add a new page would be -useful, especially if it made it easy to add blog entries to the wiki. I have a special purpose version of this in my [blog script](http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/bin.html). +useful, especially if it made it easy to add blog entries to the wiki. I +have a special purpose version of this in my [blog +script](http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/bin.html). + +---- + +w3m's cgi mode requires that cgis be in /usr/lib/w3m/cgi-bin/, and the url +for it can be $LIB/script. This presents a problem, since a regular user +can't add an ikiwiki wrapper to there (nor should they). But, +/usr/lib/w3m/cgi-bin/ikiwiki could be a meta-wrapper, that is passed the +path to the real wrapper in PATH_INFO, validates it, and runs the real +wrapper. So: + + + +Validation is important, because we don't want just any html document +including an evil w3m cgi that gets unintentionally run. The validation I'm +thinking of is that the ikiwiki meta-wrapper only runs wrappers in +$HOME/.ikiwiki/wrappers/, which the user presumably controls. -- 2.44.0