On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:18:12 -0700, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 March 2012 10:30, Daniel Friesen lists@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
And of course it creates a bit of a negative incentive. Because /index.php/Foo is so simple and works out of the box people lazily don't bother to setup proper short urls. The short url they have is only slightly shorter. It 'still' is hardwired to architectural facts like the filesystem and the fact we're using .php. What are peoples thoughts on this plan?
It's not clear if you plan to break this on existing installations - breaking backward compatibility in an upgrade is infuriating behaviour and will serve as an incentive not to upgrade, leaving insecure installations in the wild.
What is the big win from doing this? Do you just want to remove it because it's messy and doesn't work perfectly?
- d.
- Removing this autodetected feature will avoid breaking wikis out of the box. - Users who insist on /index.php/Foo style urls now have to opt-in to something that could shoot them in the foot by actually configuring MediaWiki to use `$wgArticlePath = "/index.php/$1";`