On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Michael Fötsch <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm working on a few patches to make Laconica run better inside an > intranet. Some issues are with http proxies, some with Internet > Explorer. I'd like to discuss the patches and/or the remaining issues > with you. > > (I'm working with the 0.8.0 tarball, because that's what I'm upgrading > to at my company, but I'm following the changes on the 0.9.x dev branch > as well.) > > 1. Validate::email(address, true): This appears in various places > (registration, email settings, invite), but doesn't work if the http > proxy blocks traffic to the internet.
An outbound http proxy simply handles http transactions for clients; packet filters block traffic to the internet. I *could* send emails to > [email protected], but I won't get that far, because > "Validate::email(true)" says company.com is not a valid domain. Issues like this are best dealt with by existing robust mail software; let the system MTA attempt delivery and report back the error. -Stef > Patch: I'd like to replace all "Validate::email(address, true)" with > common_validate_email() in util.php and make it configurable in > config.php whether to use "Validate::email" with or without a domain check. > > 2. Notices containing URLs: Both common_shorten_url() and > common_shorten_links() try to contact the outside world but run into the > http proxy, which causes massive delays when adding new notices. > > Patch: Make it configurable to run without shortening and > File_redirection. > > (What I'm not sure I understand from the code: What does > File_redirection::makeShort() do in the first place?) > > 3. Valid URLs are rejected by the regular expressions: > "http://someintranetserver/xy.html"; doesn't pass, neither does > "http://10.129.12.34"; > > Patch: Be less strict in the regexes (configurable?) > > 4. Internet Explorer problem: When sending new notices with attachments > (but not without attachments!), IE rejects the Ajax response sent by > Laconica, so sending the notice never succeeds (busy animation just > stays on the Send button forever). Maybe this is an IE bug, but in any > case, Laconica's response is not valid XHTML according to the w3c > validator (the "<li>" tag seems to require a surrounding "<ol>" or > "<ul>" tag). > > Patch: I have no idea where to start. I have a few error messages and > logs though, if anyone would like to help me debug this. > > > I'd really appreciate any feedback that you can give. > > Kind Regards, > M.F. > > _______________________________________________ > Laconica-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
