Re: Issue report: search function not working for private lists

On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 10:42 AM Célestin Matte <celestin(dot)matte(at)cmatte(dot)me>
wrote:

> There are several issues that prevent the correct installation of search
> functions for private lists:
> - it is only possible to define a single archive search server in pgweb's
> settings.py, which makes it impossible to define both a public and a
> private archives server,
> - there does not seem to be any kind of permissions verifications in
> pgweb/search/views.py that would allow only users subscribed to a list to
> search into it.
>
> I've been told that this functionality did not indeed work for
> postresql.org's private lists.
>

Yes, this is a known limitation. This is "documented" in a code comment:

def search(request):
if not settings.PUBLIC_ARCHIVES:
# We don't support searching of non-public archives at all at this
point.
# XXX: room for future improvement
return HttpResponseForbidden('Not public archives')

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