Tool: <https://gitlab-content.toolforge.org/> Source code: <https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/toolforge-repos/gitlab-content> Issues: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/tool-gitlab-content/> Docs: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tool:Gitlab-content>
Wikimedia GitLab content proxy (<https://gitlab-content.toolforge.org/>) is a reverse proxy for fetching raw file content from gitlab.wikimedia.org. This functionality can be combined with mw.loader.load to enable side loading content hosted on our gitlab server from a userscript, a user's common.js and global.js, or similar JavaScript workflow customization contexts. Directly fetching a raw file from gitlab will always respond with a `text/plain` mime type to prevent various cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against gitlab itself. By running in an isolated Toolforge domain gitlab-content can safely add useful mime types like `text/javascript` or `text/css`. The general use I envision for a proxy like this is enabling a collaborative development workflow including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on gitlab.wikimedia.org without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. I do not have an example userscript repo showing how to set up all those workflow tools yet, but I expect that the community will come up with their own examples soon if the workflow is actually useful. See the tool's documentation for some discussion of the risks that using a reverse proxy like this one in your own userscripts or global.js. The tool can technically be used in other on-wiki javascript contexts, but I would caution against using it with published gadgets, site-wide MediaWiki:Common.js, or other similar pages. These are shared spaces and some of them affect people who do not even know they are there. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
