Extension:Filepath

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This feature has been deprecated and should not be used with current versions of MediaWiki.

This feature was deprecated (or possibly removed completely) in version 30404.

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Filepath

Release status: stable
Implementation Special page
Description Allows user agents to get the full path of a file from its name.
Author(s) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
MediaWiki 1.7.0 or later
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Filepath is a special page extension by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> that allows user agents to get the full path of a file from its name. This functionality was added to core MediaWiki 1.12a in r30404.

Contents

[edit] Synopsis

  • Special:Filepath/File.ogg
  • Special:Filepath?file=File.ogg

[edit] Description

The page allows the user agent to submit a GET or POST form where the file field is the name of the file (without its associated namespace) to get the full path of, it also support the syntax Special:Filepath/File.ogg. If the file exists the user agent will be redirected via a Location: header to its full path, and if it doesn't exist the form will be presented again.

[edit] Status codes

The page will return different HTTP status codes depending on whether or not the image requested exists:

File exists
302 Found and a Location header that contains the full url of the image
File does not exist
404 Not Found
No file requested
200 OK

[edit] Example

However, for an image on a project other than the project itself or commons, "media:" gives the description page, while filepath gives the image itself, e.g.:

[edit] Installation

  1. Download all files from SVN and put in a new directory /extensions/Filepath
svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Filepath
  1. Download ExtensionFunctions.php if you don't already have it.
  2. Add the following to LocalSettings.php:
require_once( 'extensions/Filepath/SpecialFilepath.php' );
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