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diff --git a/doc/bugs/inline_raw_broken_on_unknown_pagetype.mdwn b/doc/bugs/inline_raw_broken_on_unknown_pagetype.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..19aa94e7e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/inline_raw_broken_on_unknown_pagetype.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +When trying to insert the raw content of an attached shell script +called `whatever` using: + + \[[!inline pages="whatever" raw="yes"]] + +The generated HTML contains: + + \[[!inline Erreur: Can't call method "param" on an undefined value + at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm + line 346.]] + +Looking at the inline plugin's code, it is clear that `$template` is +undef in such a situation. Defining `$template` just before line 346, +in case it's not defined, removes the error message, but nothing +gets inlined as `get_inline_content` returns the empty string in +this situation. + +If we explicitely don't want to allow raw inlining of unknown page +types, ikiwiki should output a better error message. + +> I have made it just do a direct include if the page type is not known, in +> raw mode. That seems useful if you want to include some other file right +> into a page. You could probably even wrap it in a format directive. +> +> It does allow including binary files right into a page, but nothing is +> stopping you pasting binary data right into the edit form either, so +> while annoying I don't think that will be a security problem. --[[Joey]] + +[[done]] |