The story of search_results.css
static/skin/search_results.css was extracted from
static/templates/no_search_result.html before the latter was dropped.
static/templates/no_search_result.html in turn seems to be a copied and
edited version of static/templates/search_result.html.
In the context of exploratory work on the internationalization of
kiwix-serve (PR #679) I noticed duplication of inline CSS across those
two templates and intended to eliminated it. That goal was not fully
accomplished (static/templates/search_result.html remained untouched)
because by that time PR #679 grew too big and the efforts were diverted
into splitting it into smaller ones. Thus search_results.css slipped
into one of those small PRs, without making much sense because nothing
really justifies preserving custom CSS in the "Fulltext search unavailable"
error page.
At the same time, it served as the only case where a link to a cacheable
resource is generated in C++ code (rather than found in a template).
This poses certain problems to the handling of cache-ids. A workaround
is to expel the URL into a template so that it is processed by
`kiwix-resources`. This commit merely demonstrates that solution. But
whether it should be preserved (or rather the "Fulltext search
unavailable" page should be deprived of CSS) is questionable.
In the absence of the "userlang" query parameter in the URL, the value
of the "Accept-Language" header is used. However, it is assumed that
"Accept-Language" specifies a single language (rather than a comma
separated list of languages possibly weighted with quality values).
Example:
Accept-Language: fr
// should work
Accept-Language: fr-CH, fr;q=0.9, en;q=0.8, de;q=0.7, *;q=0.5
// The requested language will be considered to be
// "fr-CH, fr;q=0.9, en;q=0.8, de;q=0.7, *;q=0.5".
// The i18n code will fail to find resources for such a language
// and will use the default "en" instead.
At this point a potential issue has been revealed. Now we produce
the final HTML via 2-level template expansion
1. Render parameterized messages
2. Render the HTML template
In which templates we should use double mustache "{{}}" (HTML-escaping)
tags and where we may use triple mustache "{{{}}}" (non-escaping) tags?
Introduced a new resource compiler script kiwix-compile-i18n that
processes i18n string data stored in JSON files and generates sorted C++
tables of string keys and values for all languages.
The "Fulltext search unavailable" error page is now generated using the
static/templates/error.html template. Also added two test cases checking
that error page.
404.html no longer contains anything specific to the 404 error and will
henceforth serve (with some enhancements) as a general purpose error
page template.
It is better to directly try to get the `Search` from the cache instead
of getting the `Searcher` first which could be useless in Search already
exist.
SearchInfo is a small helper structure to store information about the
queried search. It regroup already existing information (`patternString`,
geo query, ...) in one structure.
It is also used as key in the cache instead of using a generated string.
Instead of passing the `bookName` and `bookTitle` parameters to
`Response::build_404()`, `withTaskbarInfo()` is applied to its result
when needed. Note, that in `InternalServer::handle_raw()`
`withTaskbarInfo()` was not utilized since the results of the `/raw`
endpoint are not supposed to be decorated with a taskbar.
This was done in preparation for removing the `bookName` and `bookTitle`
parameters from `Response::build_404()`, but since the new function
could already be put to some use in this commit that was done too.
Previously, the seachURL was not encoded.
This resulted in an XSS vulnerability, a concept of proof is:
start kiwix-serve
visit - http://192.168.18.1:8081/"><svg onload="alert(1)">
This would display an alert message.
This encodes the searchURL before passing it to searchSuggestionHtml
We create a cache for SuggestionSearcher very similar to that of FT
searcher. User can specify a custom cache size using the environment
variable SUGGESTION_SEARCHER_CACHE_SIZE. It has a default value of 10%
of the number of books in the library.
We use the new cache template to implement two kind of cache.
1: The Searcher cache is more general in terms of its usage. A Searcher
can be used for multiple searches without much change to itself. We
try to retrieve the searcher and perform searches using it whenever
possible, and if not we put a searcher into the cache. User can
specify a custom cache length by manipulating the environment
variable SEARCHER_CACHE_SIZE. It's default value is 10% of all the
books available.
2: The search cache is much more restricted in terms of usage. It's main
purpose is to avoid re-searching on the searcher during page changes
to generate SearchResultSet of various ranges. User can specify a
custom cache length using the environment variable SEARCH_CACHE_SIZE
with a default value of 2;
Adds a std::map<std::string, std::string> with display names for language codes not given by libicu
Fault language codes are taken from library.kiwix.org
As the name suggests it, this endpoint is not smart :
It returns the content as it is and only if it is present
(no compatibility or whatever).
The only "smart" thing is to return a redirect if the entry is a redirect.
As a result of this clean-up the /suggest endpoint too stopped
generating confusing 404 Not Found errors (which, like in /meta's case
is not that important). Another functional change is that the "term"
parameter became optional.
Before this fix the /meta endpoint could return a 404 Not Found page
saying
The requested URL "/meta" was not found on this server.
Error cases producing such a result were:
- `/meta?content=NON-EXISTING-BOOK&name=metaname`
- `/meta?content=book&name=BAD-META-NAME`
Now a proper message is shown for each of those cases.
This fix is being done just for consistency (the /meta endpoint is not
a user-facing one and the scripts don't bother about error texts).
Now Response::build_404() takes the URL instead of the entire
RequestContext object. An empty url suppresses the
The requested URL "url" was not found on this server.
part of the error text.
Before this fix the /random endpoint could return a 404 Not Found page
saying
The requested URL "/random" was not found on this server.
Error cases producing such a result were:
- `/random?content=NON-EXISTING-BOOK` (can happen when a server is
restarted or the library is reloaded and the current book is no longer
available).
- Failure of the libkiwix routine for picking a random article.
Now a proper message is shown for each of those cases.
This will allow handle_suggest API to accept two arguments `start` and
`suggestionLength` that will allow handle_suggest to retrieve
suggestions in the given range rather than the default 0-10 range.
Veloman Yunkan
Matthieu Gautier
Nikhil Tanwar
Maneesh P M
Tristan Havelick
Manan Jethwani