SID-01571: Find TWiki Extensions via Configure gives Software error

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.2	Perl version:	5.8.8
Category:	CategoryDeployment	Server OS:	RHEL 5.8	Last update:	13 years ago

When I click on the "Find TWiki Extensions" button in the Configure menu I get the following response:

Consulting TWiki.org... Software error:

: $VAR1 = { 'repository' => 'TWiki.org', 'data' => 'http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/', 'installedVersion' => undef, 'pub' => 'http://twiki.org/p/pub/Plugins/', 'display' => 'inline;' };

I believe I have traced the cause of this to the "http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins.FastReport?skin=text&contenttype=text/plain" URL used by TWiki not being accessible without having logged into the TWiki site first, which the _getListOfExtensions function in /TWiki/Configure/UIs/EXTENSIONS.pm doesn't do. TWiki is getting a 302-redirect to the twiki.org login page when it tries to retrieve the extension list.

Shouldn't the "http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins.FastReport?skin=text&contenttype=text/plain" page be publicly available, as the http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins.FastReport page is?

Cheers Justin

-- JustinFarmiloe - 2012-10-26

Discussion and Answer

oops, thanks for pointing this out. I recently added some rewrite rules to weed out greedy spiders. I exclude now forced auth if skin=plain is used. Please try again.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-10-26

All good - thanks for the quick fix.

-- JustinFarmiloe - 2012-10-28

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