Brion Vibber schreef:
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Lane, Ryan wrote:
If a user has insufficient permissions to read a page, he should not be able to fetch any information at all about it I think.
IIRC, the API only honors read rights when serving page *content*, and AFAIK the UI allows users to get information about unreadable pages too (Special:Allpages and friends, for example).
Isn't this different than the way the normal rights work? Shouldn't the API only allow pages on the white list to be read? Is there a good reason to go against MediaWiki's normal security design in the API?
The function Title::userCanRead() is used, which checks for the 'read' permission as well as the whitelist..
Well, that's the thing -- if Special:Allpages is on the whitelist, then you can go to Special:Allpages and see everything Special:Allpages has to offer (a list of all pages).
If you can access the API...
True. I've had plans to implement selective disabling of API modules in LocalSettings.php for a while now. Also, there should probably be a right that controls whether users can use the API as a whole.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)