From: Roan Kattouw <catrope@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:29:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: API: Adding $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength config variable to close a DOS window
X-Git-Tag: 1.31.0-rc.0~49274
X-Git-Url: http://git.cyclocoop.org/%28?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aa91ab36c15212af9568160692dda23da3f15609;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git

API: Adding $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength config variable to close a DOS window
---

diff --git a/includes/DefaultSettings.php b/includes/DefaultSettings.php
index 467ce3d726..b955d8662e 100644
--- a/includes/DefaultSettings.php
+++ b/includes/DefaultSettings.php
@@ -2873,6 +2873,12 @@ $wgEnableWriteAPI = false;
  */
 $wgAPIModules = array();
 
+/**
+ * Minimum length of list=usercontribs's ucuserprefix parameter
+ * Setting this to a low value can open DOS windows on large wikis
+ */
+$wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength = 3;
+
 /**
  * Parser test suite files to be run by parserTests.php when no specific
  * filename is passed to it.
diff --git a/includes/api/ApiQueryUserContributions.php b/includes/api/ApiQueryUserContributions.php
index 1f589e3554..59a469f536 100644
--- a/includes/api/ApiQueryUserContributions.php
+++ b/includes/api/ApiQueryUserContributions.php
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ class ApiQueryContributions extends ApiQueryBase {
 
 		if(isset($this->params['userprefix']))
 		{
+			global $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength;
+			if(strlen($this->params['userprefix']) < $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength)
+				$this->dieUsage("User prefixes must be at least $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength characters", 'userprefix-tooshort');
+
 			$this->prefixMode = true;
 			$this->userprefix = $this->params['userprefix'];
 		}