Android Snippets

The site is slowly being targeted by bots who post comments. The easiest way to tackle this would be to give authors the option of removing comments from their snippets.
The site admin should also think of some measures to take to limit spam such as blacklisting certain sets of originating hosts when they are submitting comments. I think the ability to remove comments in itself will make a difference.

A bug in the snippet submission process means that when a snippet is submitted, a Django error page is thrown making it look like the submission was unsuccessful - except that is was. This means many users have submitted identical snippets, in quick succession, not realizing that they had actually already successfully submitted that snippet.

Allowing users to delete a snippet that they had submitted would allow people to at least clean up their own mess.

TemplateSyntaxError at /comments/posted/

Caught an exception while rendering: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

Original Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/template/debug.py", line 71, in render_node
result = node.render(context)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/template/__init__.py", line 888, in render
return func(*resolved_vars)
File "/var/www/vhosts/androidsnippets.org/django/androidsnippets/cab/templatetags/extra.py", line 141, in twitter_newComment
api.PostUpdate(msg)
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/twitter.py", line 1490, in PostUpdate
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/twitter.py", line 2014, in _FetchUrl
File "urllib2.py", line 364, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "urllib2.py", line 471, in http_response
response = self.parent.error(
File "urllib2.py", line 396, in error
result = self._call_chain(*args)
File "urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "urllib2.py", line 741, in http_error_401
host, req, headers)
File "urllib2.py", line 720, in http_error_auth_reqed
return self.retry_http_basic_auth(host, req, realm)
File "urllib2.py", line 730, in retry_http_basic_auth
return self.parent.open(req)
File "urllib2.py", line 364, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "urllib2.py", line 471, in http_response
response = self.parent.error(
File "urllib2.py", line 402, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "urllib2.py", line 480, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://www.androidsnippets.org/comments/posted/
Exception Type: TemplateSyntaxError
Exception Value:

Caught an exception while rendering: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

Original Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/template/debug.py", line 71, in render_node
result = node.render(context)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/template/__init__.py", line 888, in render
return func(*resolved_vars)
File "/var/www/vhosts/androidsnippets.org/django/androidsnippets/cab/templatetags/extra.py", line 141, in twitter_newComment
api.PostUpdate(msg)
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/twitter.py", line 1490, in PostUpdate
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/twitter.py", line 2014, in _FetchUrl
File "urllib2.py", line 364, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "urllib2.py", line 471, in http_response
response = self.parent.error(
File "urllib2.py", line 396, in error
result = self._call_chain(*args)
File "urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "urllib2.py", line 741, in http_error_401
host, req, headers)
File "urllib2.py", line 720, in http_error_auth_reqed
return self.retry_http_basic_auth(host, req, realm)
File "urllib2.py", line 730, in retry_http_basic_auth
return self.parent.open(req)
File "urllib2.py", line 364, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "urllib2.py", line 471, in http_response
response = self.parent.error(
File "urllib2.py", line 402, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "urllib2.py", line 480, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

Exception Location: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/template/debug.py in render_node, line 81
Python Executable: /usr/bin/python
Python Version: 2.4.4
Python Path: ['/var/www/vhosts/androidsnippets.org/django/', '/var/www/vhosts/androidsnippets.org/django/androidsnippets/', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.3-py2.4.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Genshi-0.5.1-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Pygments-1.0-py2.4.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/markdown-1.7-py2.4.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/python_twitter-0.6_devel-py2.4.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/simplejson-2.0.9-py2.4.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1-py2.4.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/python_memcached-1.44-py2.4.egg', '/usr/lib/python24.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.4', '/usr/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages', '/var/lib/python-support/python2.4']
Server time: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:26:58 +0200
Template error

In template /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/contrib/comments/templates/comments/posted.html, error at line 16
Caught an exception while rendering: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized
6
7 {% block main_content %}
8 <h1>Thank you for your comment!</h1>
9 <p><img alt="" src="http://androidsnippets.org/media/feed-icon-10x10.png&quot;/&gt; Do you want to subscribe to one of our feeds?
10 <ul><li><a class="n" href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/AndroidSnippetsCombined&quot;&gt;Latest Snippets & Comments</a></li>
11 <li><a class="n" href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/AndroidSnippetsComments&quot;&gt;Latest Comments</a></li>
12 <li><a class="n" href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/AndroidSnippetsLatest&quot;&gt;Latest Snippets</a></li></ul>
13 </p>
14
15 <p><br><big><a href="/snippets/{{ comment.object_pk }}/">Return to the Snippet</a></big></p>
16 {% twitter_newComment comment %}
17 {% endblock %}
18
19
20
Traceback Switch to copy-and-paste view

* /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py in get_response
79. # Apply view middleware
80. for middleware_method in self._view_middleware:
81. response = middleware_method(request, callback, callback_args, callback_kwargs)
82. if response:
83. return response
84.
85. try:
86. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) ...
87. except Exception, e:
88. # If the view raised an exception, run it through exception
89. # middleware, and if the exception middleware returns a
90. # response, use that. Otherwise, reraise the exception.
91. for middleware_method in self._exception_middleware:
92. response = middleware_method(request, e)
▶ Local vars
Variable Value
callback
<function confirmed at 0x2b3df9703410>
callback_args
()
callback_kwargs
{}
e
<django.template.TemplateSyntaxError instance at 0x2b3df989bcb0>
exc_info
(<class django.template.TemplateSyntaxError at 0x2b3df900a830>, <django.template.TemplateSyntaxError instance at 0x2b3df989bcb0>, <traceback object at 0x2b3df989f0e0>)
exceptions
<module 'django.core.exceptions' from '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/exceptions.pyc'>
middleware_method
<bound method OpenIDMiddleware.process_request of <django_authopenid.middleware.OpenIDMiddleware object at 0x2b3df83c1b90>>
receivers
[(<function _rollback_on_exception at 0x2b3df8f1b758>, None)]
request
<ModPythonRequest path:/snippets/comments/posted/, GET:<QueryDict: {u'c': [u'555']}>, POST:<QueryDict: {}>, COOKIES:{'__utma': '57555706.1078141276610844800.1251368539.1251368539.1251368539.1', '__utmb': '57555706.3.10.1251368539', '__utmc': '57555706', '__utmz': '57555706.1251368539.1.1.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=android%20vibrate'}, META:{'AUTH_TYPE': None, 'CONTENT_LENGTH': 0L, 'CONTENT_TYPE': None, 'GATEWAY_INTERFACE': 'CGI/1.1', 'HTTP_ACCEPT': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip,deflate', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE': 'en-us,en;q=0.5', 'HTTP_CONNECTION': 'keep-alive', 'HTTP_COOKIE': '__utma=57555706.1078141276610844800.1251368539.1251368539.1251368539.1; __utmb=57555706.3.10.1251368539; __utmc=57555706; __utmz=57555706.1251368539.1.1.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=android%20vibrate', 'HTTP_HOST': 'www.androidsnippets.org', 'HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE': '300', 'HTTP_REFERER': 'http://www.androidsnippets.org/snippets/comments/post/', 'HTTP_USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009080315 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.13', 'PATH_INFO': u'/comments/posted/', 'PATH_TRANSLATED': None, 'QUERY_STRING': 'c=555', 'REMOTE_ADDR': '58.156.2.18', 'REMOTE_HOST': None, 'REMOTE_IDENT': None, 'REMOTE_USER': None, 'REQUEST_METHOD': 'GET', 'SCRIPT_NAME': '/snippets', 'SERVER_NAME': 'androidsnippets.org', 'SERVER_PORT': 80, 'SERVER_PROTOCOL': 'HTTP/1.1', 'SERVER_SOFTWARE': 'mod_python'}>
resolver
<RegexURLResolver androidsnippets.urls ^/>
response
None
self
<django.core.handlers.modpython.ModPythonHandler object at 0x2b3df7490490>
settings
<django.conf.LazySettings object at 0x2b3df819cb10>
urlconf
'androidsnippets.urls'
urlresolvers
<module 'django.core.urlresolvers' from '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.pyc'>
* /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/contrib/comments/views/utils.py in confirmed
39. if 'c' in request.GET:
40. try:
41. comment = comments.get_model().objects.get(pk=request.GET['c'])
42. except ObjectDoesNotExist:
43. pass
44. return render_to_response(template,
45. {'comment': comment},
46. context_instance=RequestContext(request) ...
47. )
48.
49. confirmed.__doc__ = textwrap.dedent("""\
50. %s
51.
52. Templates: `%s``
▶ Local vars
Variable Value
comment
<Comment: Nicolas Raoul: For this to work, you will have to add the android...>
request
<Mo