Search function in macports.org defunct

[Clemens Lang]

Hi Nils,

> On 20. Jul 2025, at 23:47, Nils Breunese <breun at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> For a while, spammers hot linked to the trac search results with a full URL as search term. Trac has a feature where it adds a “quick link” to the bottom of the results when you do that, essentially generating a link to that page.
>> 
>> People were using that to abuse MacPorts Trac to link to their page so that Google (and I guess other search engines) would index their site as linked from MacPorts, presumably to increase their page rank.
> 
> Can’t this “quick link” Trac feature be disabled? And if not, that might be worth a feature request? It indeed sounds like an open invitation for abuse.

Sure, I could go and edit the code to do it, but it would be yet another downstream patch to our Trac install. Instead, I’d rather invest the time in updating our Trac to a newer version, and until then I needed a stopgap to prevent the spammer abuse, so I changed the web server config.

I believe the code is no longer present in the current version of Trac.


Clemens