Re[2]: [Phpwiki-talk] comments to SystemInfo

[Lawrence A. <la...@us...>]

On Monday, September 2, 2002, 9:11:37 AM, Reini Urban wrote:

>> I  am  a  little concerned about giving everyone the chance to find
>> out my disk space size, and certain other things about my server.

RU> diskspace is `du -s PHPWIKI_DIR`, so actually only the diskspace used 
RU> for phpwiki, which might be useful information for users who want to 
RU> install it. database size similar.
RU> I wouldn't call that security sensible information.

Fair enough :-). This won't work on windows servers though!



>> Why, for example, should anyone need to know what version of php I am running?

RU> This is returned by every apache header anyway.

True. I'd forgotten that.

>> There may be other security implications.
>> 
>> However,  I  had been thinking of something similar. In particular, we
>> could  use something like this to replace Info and DebugInfo. We could
>> have a plugin which displays info about a particular page, eg <?plugin
>> pageinfo LastModified> or <?plugin pageinfo Markup>.
>> 
>> It could be used, for example, do display a hit counter on any page.

RU> <?plugin SystemInfo hitcounter ?> is a good idea. <?plugin SystemInfo 
hitstats ?>> displays full statistical information, but the raw number 
RU> alone would also be interesting.

I had in mind replacing each item of information on the info page with
a  call  to  the SystemInfo plugin. That way, people could set up info
pages they way they wanted. It seems a very "wiki way" of doing things

Lawrence