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Linkback Plugin

Compatible with DokuWiki

2008-05-05, Adora Belle, Angua, Rincewind, Anteater

plugin Adds Trackback and Pingback support to DokuWiki

Last updated on
2016-04-26
Provides
Syntax, Admin, Action
Repository
Source
Conflicts with
badbehaviour

This extension has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues.

Tagged with blog, pingback, trackback

Description

The linkback plugin adds Trackback and Pingback support to DokuWiki. This includes autodiscovery of track- and pingback-URLs on websites linked via an external or internal link and then sending the actual linkback as well as receiving and displaying received linkbacks. An expandable spamfilter provides protection from trackback and pingback spam. Currently, this includes

  • a check whether the count of links in the excerpt exceeds a configurable amount,
  • a check of the excerpt against the DokuWiki wordblock list,
  • a check whether the ip of the linking page is equal to that of the submitter (moderation instead of instant deletion is enabled by default for this check, you should keep it like that),
  • a check whether the linking page includes a link to the linked page in case of a trackback (where this check is not part of the protocol as compared to pingbacks) and
  • support for using the Akismet webservice to check linkbacks for spam (disabled by default, you need an Akismet API key to use this feature. You can get one by registering for a blog at Wordpress.com).

It should be noted that the badbehaviour library which is incorporated into the badbehaviour plugin does not seem to be very friendly to anything remotely resembling a trackback or a pingback1) and thus will probably lead to the linkback plugin not working as intended. I'll try to look into it though.

Changes

Usage

In order to send linkbacks from a wiki node, activate the corresponding checkbox in the editform.

The receiving and display of received linkbacks is handled by the syntax plugin. The following commands are recognized:

  • ~~LINKBACK~~: Receive and display linkbacks.
  • ~~LINKBACK:closed~~: Display already received linkbacks but don't receive new ones.
  • ~~LINKBACK:off~~: Neither receive nor display linkbacks. Use this to disable linkback support in an already linkback-enabled wiki node.

Adding new spamfilters

Events

The linkback plugin introduces three new events to allow for extension of it's antispam-mechanisms by action plugins. These events are:

ACTION_LINKBACK_RECEIVED

Name ACTION_LINKBACK_RECEIVED
Data
$data['linkback'] -- The linkback data as documented below
$data['page']     -- The html source as fetched from the pinging 
                     site
$data['target']   -- The wiki page that got pinged
$data['show']     -- Whether to show the linkback, defaults to true
                     and can be set in action plugins to moderate
                     the linkback
$data['log']      -- An array of lines that make up the linkback log
                     of the received linkback. Antispam plugins can
                     add their own logging output by appending lines
                     to this array.
Action Sets the show property of the received linkback to the value defined in the event's data
and then saves the linkback.
Preventable yes
Signalled by exe/trackback.php and exe/pingback.php before saving the new linkback

Action plugins can register for this event to filter incoming linkbacks using both the actual linkback data as well as the source of the pinging page.

ACTION_LINKBACK_HAM

Name ACTION_LINKBACK_HAM
Data the linkback data
Action none
Preventable no
Signalled by the handler of the Report as Ham button of the linkback-listing (action/display.php)

In order to report a linkback as ham (e.g. to antispam plugins using classifiers), action plugins can register for this event.

ACTION_LINKBACK_SPAM

Name ACTION_LINKBACK_SPAM
Data the linkback data
Action none
Preventable no
Signalled by the handler of the Report as Spam button of the linkback-listing (action/display.php)

In order to report a linkback as spam (e.g. to antispam plugins using classifiers), action plugins can register for this event.

Linkback data

Each linkback item is represented as a hash which stores the following properties:

  • lid – internal id of the linkback
  • title – title
  • url – url
  • raw_excerpt – small excerpt of the linking page (exactly as received in the linkback)
  • excerpt – small excerpt of the linking page (html tags stripped)
  • blog_name – name of the linking page
  • favicon – url of the linking page's favicon, or false if none could be found
  • received – timestamp of the date the linkback was received
  • submitter_ip – ip of the submitter
  • submitter_useragent – useragent of the submitter
  • submitter_referer – referer of the submitter
  • type – type of the linkback, can be either trackback or pingback
  • show – true if the linkback should be visible to everyone, false if it should be visible only to admins. Antispam plugins can set this to false in order to moderate a suspicious linkback.

Discussion

Please don't report any bugs or feature requests here but instead use the bug tracker!

1)
HTTP Range headers for probing for ping URLs are prohibited/forced into omitting the first byte, most of the user agents used by blog software is prohibited, …
plugin/linkback.1461691758.txt.gz · Last modified: 2016-04-26 19:29 by LarsDW223

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