Links can be put into forums in Moodle by students. So it's not fully just admins.
Robert, take a look at the report from Vineet to see which links were affected in his original report. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Contributors, which is subscribed to Mahara. Matching subscriptions: Subscription for all Mahara Contributors -- please ask on #mahara-dev or mahara.org forum before editing or unsubscribing it! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1724950 Title: Broken link checker Status in Mahara: Confirmed Bug description: Implement a broken link checker to prevent people going to web sites that may be up for grabs and thus exposing them to phishing, serving malware, impersonation. Thanks to Vineet Kumar for reporting this. I think it concerns primarily links in the editor (TinyMCE and plain text) as well as any field where you can enter a URL. External media should be fairly safe as domains need to be whitelisted in the "Allowed iframes". So having a check for them rather than when a block is on a page might suffice. Before implementing a solution, the following should be discussed: - What do current link checkers offer? - Unlink automatically or require admin intervention? If admin intervention, will there be a weekly / daily email? - If admin intervention, most links will be in user created content though to which admin doesn't have direct access. - Should links be crossed out and unlinked automatically? That would also resolve the issue with posting direct links rather than linking text. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1724950/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
