Extension:MWBlocker

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MWBlocker Release status: unstable
Description	Obsolete tool hooking in with a proxy-blocker
Author(s)	Brion Vibber (Brion VIBBERTalk)
License	GPL
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What this extension does

Tool to hook in with an obsolete proxy-blocker, used briefly by the Wikimedia Foundation circa 2005 until early 2006. IP addresses of editors would be sent to a daemon process which would queue up open-proxy checks, then write IP addresses of hits to a log file which could be loaded into $wgProxyList in your LocalSettings.php

The actual proxy checker tool code was written in Boo (Mono-based Python-like language) and is floating in SVN should anybody want to pick it up.

Installation

To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

require_once("$IP/extensions/MWBlocker/MWBlocker.php");

Configure the location of the daemon & debug settings if necessary:

$mwBlockerHost = 'localhost';
$mwBlockerPort = 8126;
$mwBlockerDebug = false;

And set up to load the list:

##$wgProxyList = array_flip( array_map( 'trim', file( 'udp://10.0.5.8:8420/mwblocker' ) ) );
$wgProxyList = "$IP/wmf-config/mwblocker.log";