[Mediawiki-l] problem with breaking out of frames JS using ShortURLs???

[Richard Evans]

This is just an fyi post to share with the group when the problem and 
solution was to the situation described below.

After reading-up on the implementation of the "Short URL" method at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eliminating_index.php_from_the_url

it dawned on me that the problem was that my iframe content was within my 
wiki directory and therefore the Apache server was "programmed" to alias the 
page for me as requested for the short URL implementation.

The solution (and lesson learned) is to no point IFRAMEs to anything in the 
wiki directory tree if your server is set-up to alias the path for you.

so....thanks again to anyone who invested a few brain cycles into this post.

- rich (revansx)
-- Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while - lol.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Evans" <revansx at cox.net>
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" 
<mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 12:05 PM
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] problem with breaking out of frames JS using 
ShortURLs???


> Hi,
>
> In order to get an HTML "iframe" working in a custom skin I'm working on,
> I've disabled my MediaWiki's behavior of breaking out of frames using an
> equivalent act of adding "$wgBreakFrames=false;" in the LocalSettings file
> by simply modifying the /skins/common/wikibits.js file to comment out the
> code which checks for the parent frame (lines 65 & 66 in ver. 1.6.10) <-
> thanks Rob :-)
>
> This works perfectly for long URLs which use the php post data to carry 
> the
> article title
>
> such as:     .../wiki/index.php?title=My_Title
>
> but does NOT work with short URLs
>
> such as:     ../wiki/index.php/My_Title
>
> does anyone the mechanics of the "Short URL" programming well enough to 
> help
> me come up with a solution that does not involve upgrading. I am stuck 
> with
> 1.6.10
>
> please advise,
> - rich (revansx)
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rob Church" <robchur at gmail.com>
> To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
> <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] iframes problem in modified Monobook skin
>
>
>> On 04/04/07, revansx at cox.net <revansx at cox.net> wrote:
>>> I have modified my Monobook.php skin to include an "iframe" at the top
>>> (just above the article title). However, when I look at the page in my
>>> wiki, the wiki automatically goes to an article which is named what my
>>> iframe src= is pointed to. The iframe html code works fine in a page by
>>> itself. Can anyone help me understand why this is happening? ...and help
>>> me with a work around?
>>
>> The IFRAME source is a page on the wiki?
>>
>> If that's the case (it wasn't clear above), then this appears to be
>> MediaWiki's behaviour of breaking out of frames. You can switch this
>> off in newer versions of the software using $wgBreakFrames = false; in
>> LocalSettings.php.
>>
>>
>> Rob Church
>>
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