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Bug 856 - Auto-IP blocks last past the original block length
Auto-IP blocks last past the original block length
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal major with 6 votes (vote)
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Assigned To: Tony Sidaway
:
: 1888 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2004-11-10 12:51 UTC by Anthony
Modified: 2005-10-19 06:55 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


Attachments
Fixed the bug. Check if the auto-block excedes the user-block (46.92 KB, patch)
2005-10-07 12:14 UTC, Ting Chen
Details
Patch for the fix (820 bytes, patch)
2005-10-08 14:26 UTC, Ting Chen
Details

Description Anthony 2004-11-10 12:51:40 UTC
For example, if User:trollinator is blocked for 24 hours at 1005 Sunday and
clicks on a broken link at 0955 Monday, the IP address she is using is blocked
until 0955 Tuesday.
Comment 1 Jeff Bonham 2005-01-09 20:47:12 UTC
Possibly related to bug 1156, bug 1204 
Comment 2 Anthony 2005-01-09 22:23:22 UTC
It should be noted that this bug was there from the very beginning.  It is a
known design flaw (I believe bug 1204, at least, is new).
Comment 3 Brion Vibber 2005-01-29 07:46:20 UTC
Is this a bug or intended behavior?
Comment 4 Jeff Bonham 2005-04-07 23:12:12 UTC
This is a bug.  People are regularly blocked for longer than originally intended because of 
this bug.  I get emails about it all the time. 
 
A better behaviour would be to autoblock the IP for a length of time that would expire at the 
same time as the original block, but with a maximum (such as 24 hours). 
Comment 5 Piotr Matuszewski 2005-04-19 10:52:07 UTC
*** Bug 1888 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Peter Gervai (grin) 2005-06-24 08:03:43 UTC
I would have raised this as critical prio. Smaller wikipedias don't have admins
online 24/7 and longer-than-required blocks may raise significant noise.
Comment 7 Mark Ryan 2005-07-04 02:47:13 UTC
The effect of this bug is to reset a user's block from the start whenever they click "edit 
this page". However, as I understand it, users do not find out *by software* that they are 
blocked until they actually go to this edit page. As a result, their block does not always 
technically start until they actually try to edit. And if they go back to an edit page to re-
read their block information (such as to get the name of the blocking administrator) the 
block starts again on their current IP address. As far as I know, this is not the intended 
effect of blocks.
Comment 8 Nathan J. Yoder 2005-07-04 05:11:22 UTC
I should add that this happens even when you're logged in under the username
that was originally blocked  (logged in as User:trollinator).  I'm not sure if
this should require a different report or not, but it would be helpful to
display a 'view source' that displays the source since they can't edit at the
time (same as when a page as protected).  Yes, you can get an xml dump of the
page, from from a UI standpoint it makes more sense to have this option which
the users are used to.
Comment 9 Tony Sidaway 2005-07-22 02:50:40 UTC
I've encountered this behavior in the past but have only gotten a real grasp on
what is happening since I've examined the source code.

The problem is in User::spreadBlock() which is executed when 
User::GetBlockedStatus() for a logged-in user determines that a user block is in
progress.  The function User::spreadBlock() then looks to see if the IP address
is already blocked. If so, it calls Block::updateTimestamp(), which calls
Block::getAutoblockExpiry() to calculate the new expiry time.  After checking
that the IP block was an autoblock, this simply adds the global constant
$wgAutoblockExpiry  to the timestamp.  The default value of this constant is
86400, which programmers will recognise as the number of seconds in a day.

By contrast, if the IP address was not already blocked, the autoblock expiry
time is only set to time+86400 if this is earlier than the user block expiry
time.  This code should also be executed in Block::updateTimestamp().  I'm
fixing this in my test wiki now.
Comment 10 Zigger 2005-07-24 02:25:27 UTC
(wikibugs-l@wikipedia.org needs to be added to the CC list when changing
assignment.)
Comment 11 Ting Chen 2005-10-07 12:14:32 UTC
Created attachment 944 [details]
Fixed the bug. Check if the auto-block excedes the user-block

If auto-block excedes the user-block, then the auto-block would not be
prolonged for another 24 hours.
Comment 12 Ting Chen 2005-10-08 14:26:37 UTC
Created attachment 952 [details]
Patch for the fix

cvs patch.

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