On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Jacek Wielemborek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to discuss this on #wikimedia-mobile on Freenode, but nobody
> could explain this to me:
>
> I'm building a website that allows the users to view Wikipedia changes
> correlated to rDNS names of their editors and I wanted to implement a
> "random mode" that allows thm to see all edits made by a given rDNS
> domain - the user would just press F5 and see the editor in context like
> this:
>
> http://wikispy.wmflabs.org/by_rdns_random/plwiki/.gov.pl
>
> I would definitely prefer to use the mobile version of Wikipedia though
> or at least Special:MobileEdit, but both disallow framing. Is there any
> specific reason for that? I would guess that this is for security, but I
> have to admit I don't know what could be gained by showing the
> MobileDiff in a frame.
>
> Cheers,
> d33tah
>
>
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I don't know about normal mobile page views, but edit views are not
allowed to be framed to prevent click-jacking attacks [1]

--bawolff

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickjacking

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