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I just wanted to delete a skin from neger.antville.org, and boof - the whole weblog was gone. No need to restore it; it was just a testing field for skins anyway, but I thought I'd better report it.

I'm not sure which skin I was about to delete (wanted to reset the whole thing to zero), but I think I clicked the "delete"-button twice (nervous finger).

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robert, February 10, 2003 at 2:26:18 AM CET

thanks for the report, although i must confess that this really makes me nervous ... i assume that this can only happen if href() returns a wrong result.

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robert, February 10, 2003 at 6:38:21 PM CET

i hope it's fixed now

looks like the missing _parent-definition of prototype skin was the reason for helma returning the wrong href() (diff).

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hns, February 10, 2003 at 6:56:22 PM CET

does that mean

you were able to reproduce this? That would be bad news indeed.

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robert, February 10, 2003 at 6:59:09 PM CET

no

that's an educated guess. i was just wondering why helma would produce "/" for the href() of a skin-object (instead of "/skins/[proto]/[name]", and the only way i could think of is a parent-problem. and then i figured out that there's no _parent-definition for skin-objects ... the whole thing explained: skin/delete.hac produces the confirm-page with a form embedded, but before the actual rendering it sets res.data.action = this.href(req.action); now if res.data.action is /delete (because of a parent-problem), the user has the right to remove a whole site, and she clicks on "delete" the site is gone. even worse that the confirm-page asks if she wants to delete just a skin ...

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hns, February 10, 2003 at 7:51:10 PM CET

You're probably right

I think this happens when the skin's parent node (which is the per-protptype group node) has been evicted from cache while the URL is being built, and there's no _parent info available. In this case, getParent(), which is used to build the URL, returns null, resulting in a URL identical to that of the root object.

Now this is certainly a very very improbably case, although the probability that this happens seems very very small to me. I'll check it out.

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Chronistin, February 11, 2003 at 1:51:55 AM CET

Ahem, talking about the confirm-page

I have to admit that I actually never READ the message. Only thing I can say is it had the usual length and the usual two buttons beneath. You know how it is...

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hns, February 10, 2003 at 10:37:28 AM CET

What browser are you using? Any software running between the browser and the server?

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Chronistin, February 10, 2003 at 11:34:40 AM CET

It's IE6, and I'm running Norton Internet Security. After the erraneous doubleckick, the server tried to redirect to neger.antville.org/delete, which probably fits robert's theory.

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