Comments on: Turn off Instiki spam/flood protection

Question: Turn off Instiki spam/flood protection

djgh — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:18:36 -0800

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.

By: Freaky

Freaky — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:58:10 -0800

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.

By: djgh

djgh — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:01:42 -0800

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?

By: Freaky

Freaky — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:28:42 -0800

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.

By: djgh

djgh — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:10:05 -0800

That plus deleting all lines in spam_patterns.txt did the trick. Thanks!