Last modified: 2014-07-05 19:03:12 UTC
Whatever file I try to upload via upload_by_url on translatewiki.net, nothing happens: Special:Upload is reloaded as is, no error is shown. Telling MediaWiki to ignore errors doesn't help and it's the same if there are no local or remote duplicates. Note that this is different from bug 22015 because no error at all is shown (debug=true didn't help). It might also be a configuration error.
Nemo: Is this still an issue?
(In reply to comment #1) > Nemo: Is this still an issue? Why shouldn't it? It was only 4 months ago. :) I can no longer test it because TWN doesn't have upload by URL enabled now.
I'm having the same problem with MW 1.20.2, and I have only the vaguest clue as to where to start debugging it because apparently the POST data is not handled inside SpecialUpload.php but somewhere else entirely (possibly the SpecialPage class).
Could this be yet another thing related to/fixed by Ia6535f1090627ef2def360bda37c22bff10c7f31 ? Bug 44135 and bug 42441 all have in common some external request.
I'm experiencing this on a site not using https/SSL or Commons, fwiw. (I did have "$wgUseInstantCommons = true;", but after commenting that line out there does not appear to be any change in behavior.) Tentatively, the problem may be in includes/upload/UploadBase.php or UploadFromURL.php.
The problem seems to be that the form shows the necessary controls for uploading by URL even if the user does not have permission to do so, while the code for processing the form fails silently if the user does not have permission (perhaps assuming that the necessary controls would ''not'' display in this case, in which case this condition could only be the result of a deliberate hack). To reproduce this bug, then, all you have to do is have $wgAllowCopyUploads set TRUE and then attempt an upload while logged in as a user who does not have upload_by_url permission. Suggested remedy: display a message indicating that the user doesn't have the upload_by_url permission, and link to this page for further explanation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAllowCopyUploads
It's possible that this is already fixed in master, then: this would explain why in comment 2 I didn't see it enabled any longer, although I don't recall any related config change.
I agree with Woozle's comment. At the very least, an error message with some details will help people to determine the issue. When I ran into this issue, I had to research it on mediawiki.org (and of course the documentation was out of date). It required a lot of playing around with various configurations until I got it to work properly.
Brad, thank you. The default config should work for you, did you really have to set upload_by_url to * for it to work? http://tmbw.net/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights
When I upgraded to 1.20.3, I first added "$wgCopyUploadsFromSpecialUpload = true;" to my LocalSettings.php file. However, when I then tried to enter a source url and upload, the upload form would simply refresh (without any kinds of errors). I then added "$wgGroupPermissions['*']['upload_by_url'] = true;" to my LocalSettings.php and that fixed it. (Note - I just re-tested this, by temporarily commenting out the $wgGroupPermissions value, and this is definitely the behaviour on my wiki.)
Removing target milestone that was in the past. If you want this in a specific release, have a good reason AND you are willing to find resources to fix this bug, feel free to change it to something appropriate.
Change 142000 had a related patch set uploaded by Rohan013: Disables upload by url option for users without the necessary permissions https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/142000
Change 142000 merged by jenkins-bot: Disables upload by url option for users without the necessary permissions https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/142000
was successfully merged
