From: | Akshat Jaimini <destrex271(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-www(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Inbuilt URL validation for dynamic content generated by users. |
Date: | 2023-08-16 02:15:44 |
Message-ID: | CAMaW3VjmdY2hiVZBHNjt1-KFktycJ6Rkf92k9Ua7d8ooW-xjMQ@mail.gmail.com |
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Hello Everyone!
Just following up on this thread. It would be great if we can get some
thoughts on this patch.
Regards,
Akshat Jaimini
On Mon, 14 Aug, 2023, 21:23 Akshat Jaimini, <destrex271(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> I think this can help us a lot in manually searching for broken URLs
> Correction: Instead of manually searching for broken URLs.
>
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 9:17 PM Akshat Jaimini <destrex271(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> While working on the PGweb Testing Harness we noticed that although our
>> testing suite works on checking the entire website for broken links, we are
>> not able to check the real time data that is present on the main website
>> since the testing harness uses a development environment with some
>> predefined fixtures which does not aptly satisfy this particular test.
>>
>> Therefore we have two patches to tackle the problem of Broken URLs at
>> least in the dynamic content for the pgweb repository.
>> 1. URL validation in URL specific fields and markup fields in the
>> forms for adding Events, News, Organisation, Products and Professional
>> Services.[form_validation_with_markdown_v03.patch]
>>
>> 2. A secondary service which would be run as a cronjob on the prod
>> server to check tables that consist of specified URL fields and Markup
>> content fields. (I am currently using the local values for database
>> connection in the script; changes will be made according to the prod server
>> if we decide to deploy it.)[url_scan_individual_tables.patch]
>>
>> Patches have been attached in the above mentioned order. Would love to
>> hear your thoughts on this. I think this can help us a lot in manually
>> searching for broken URLs on the website (at least in the dynamically
>> generated content). I am also working on refining the crawling service
>> already implemented in the Testing Harness which would be able to check for
>> broken URLs.
>>
>
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