22 Feb
2019
22 Feb
'19
11:31 a.m.
On 22 Feb 2019, at 09:59, Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
Hi devs,
Because of tomcat and because tomcat is by far the most used container for xwiki and
because we also bundle tomcat in the debian and docker dsitributions,
Re docker and debian we already set the proper config for Tomcat so the issue is with all
users not using those distributions, which represents a sizable proportion (around
25-30%). I believe almost 100% of those are having the problem at some point.
Thanks
-Vincent
I think we should disallow / and \ in page names by
default. It's causing too much trouble for users. We keep having users posting
problems and for one user who post a problem there are 100 who don't.
The latest one:
https://forum.xwiki.org/t/please-help-broken-link-routing-cannot-open-page-…
Implementation idea:
* Offer an extension point in the create page UI to allow plugging some cleaning
algorithm
* Provide the \ and / cleaning algorithm by default
* Handle backward compat. Find ways to not break existing users who are having / and \ in
page names. For example we could imagine a property in xwiki.properties that we would set
to point to the hint of the / and \ cleaner component. Thus existing users would need to
voluntarily upgrade their xwiki.properties to have it if they want it. We would need to
provide some script to convert existing pages with / and \ too probably.
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent