Turn off Instiki spam/flood protection

February 10, 2008 11:18 AM

Is there any way to stop spam protection on Instiki?

I run a local version of Instiki (0.12) on my Mac (OSX 10.4.11) which I keep notes on. This isn't an as-you-go operation - I'll take notes by hand, and then at the end of the day or week sit down and try and type them all in.

Problem is, Instiki's flood/spam protection is stopping me. Is there any way of turning it off? I'm more than happy to dive in using Terminal. I've Googled around, but there doesn't seem to be a ready-made solution yet.

posted by djgh to computers & internet (4 comments total)

A quick glance at it shows it uses a plugin; form_spam_protection, which is called from controllers using protect_forms_from_spam or from similar sounding before_filters.

And indeed, app/controllers/application.rb:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
#  require 'dnsbl_check'
  protect_forms_from_spam

Comment that out, maybe restart if it runs in production mode, and you're done.
posted by Freaky at 4:58 PM on February 10, 2008

My version had slightly more than that listed.


class ApplicationController <> # require 'dnsbl_check'
protect_forms_from_spam
before_filter :dnsbl_check, :connect_to_model, :check_authorization, :setup_url_generator, :set_content_type_header, :set_robots_metatag
after_filter :remember_location, :teardown_url_generator

And commenting it out completely broke Instiki. Any ideas?
posted by djgh at 5:01 PM on February 11, 2008

Yes, I just included enough context to draw your attention to "protect_forms_from_spam". Comment that line out and it should work, don't remove anything else.

You may also delete ":dnsbl_check," from the before_filter line to remove DNS blacklist checks; saves a few pointless DNS lookups.
posted by Freaky at 7:28 PM on February 11, 2008

That plus deleting all lines in spam_patterns.txt did the trick. Thanks!
posted by djgh at 8:10 AM on February 12, 2008