Discussion:
[limesurvey-developers] Introduction
Gabriele Mambrini
2015-01-20 16:08:42 UTC
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Hi developers,

my name is Gabriele and I work for an Italian public institution,
where I was asked to implement a corporate survey solution based on
Limesurvey 2.

I'm writing some plugins to let my user authenticate on LS2 using our
identity management infrastructure and to manage LS2 permission using
LDAP groups. These plugins are tailored for our custom infrastructures
so I think I won't release them, however now I'm going to face some
issues that requires new features to be added to Limesurvey and I'd
like to contribute my patches to the community.

I've started playing with Limesurvey code implementing a new Central
Participant Database use case, where an user wants to share a
participant with all the other LS users. In corporate scenarios it may
happen that the CPDB is like an address book, feed by an admin (or a
scheduled job) and automatically shared among all the other users, so
my idea is to add a "public" flag to a participant when it should be
shared in such a way. The patch (I'm still working on it) is on github
https://github.com/gmambro/LimeSurvey/tree/publicparticipant

I've mostly been a system administrator for 10 years but I've
developed some applications for system monitoring, configuration and
documentation. I've been developing my web interfaces mainly with
Perl, using Catalyst and DBIX::Class, or Python, with Django, but I'm
scared by working with PHP.

So, if you think I can be useful, here I am.

Gabriele
Marcel Minke
2015-01-20 19:17:45 UTC
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Hi Gabriele,

thanks for saying "Hello Limesurvey World!".

If you need certain feature to be added to the Limesurvey core please
get in touch with us and follow the procedure described at
http://manual.limesurvey.org/How_to_contribute_new_features.
We can also help with certain coding or general Limesurvey questions if
you ping us at the Limesurvey IRC:
https://www.limesurvey.org/en/community-services/live-chat

Best regards,
Marcel
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Post by Gabriele Mambrini
Hi developers,
my name is Gabriele and I work for an Italian public institution,
where I was asked to implement a corporate survey solution based on
Limesurvey 2.
I'm writing some plugins to let my user authenticate on LS2 using our
identity management infrastructure and to manage LS2 permission using
LDAP groups. These plugins are tailored for our custom infrastructures
so I think I won't release them, however now I'm going to face some
issues that requires new features to be added to Limesurvey and I'd
like to contribute my patches to the community.
I've started playing with Limesurvey code implementing a new Central
Participant Database use case, where an user wants to share a
participant with all the other LS users. In corporate scenarios it may
happen that the CPDB is like an address book, feed by an admin (or a
scheduled job) and automatically shared among all the other users, so
my idea is to add a "public" flag to a participant when it should be
shared in such a way. The patch (I'm still working on it) is on github
https://github.com/gmambro/LimeSurvey/tree/publicparticipant
I've mostly been a system administrator for 10 years but I've
developed some applications for system monitoring, configuration and
documentation. I've been developing my web interfaces mainly with
Perl, using Catalyst and DBIX::Class, or Python, with Django, but I'm
scared by working with PHP.
So, if you think I can be useful, here I am.
Gabriele
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Jason Cleeland
2015-01-21 08:34:33 UTC
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Hi Gabriel,

Nice to meet you, if you need any help with cpdb stuff feel free to contact me, I mentored and worked with the GSOC student who created the cpdb and have documentation and other info that may help.

Jason Cleeland
Post by Gabriele Mambrini
Hi developers,
my name is Gabriele and I work for an Italian public institution,
where I was asked to implement a corporate survey solution based on
Limesurvey 2.
I'm writing some plugins to let my user authenticate on LS2 using our
identity management infrastructure and to manage LS2 permission using
LDAP groups. These plugins are tailored for our custom infrastructures
so I think I won't release them, however now I'm going to face some
issues that requires new features to be added to Limesurvey and I'd
like to contribute my patches to the community.
I've started playing with Limesurvey code implementing a new Central
Participant Database use case, where an user wants to share a
participant with all the other LS users. In corporate scenarios it may
happen that the CPDB is like an address book, feed by an admin (or a
scheduled job) and automatically shared among all the other users, so
my idea is to add a "public" flag to a participant when it should be
shared in such a way. The patch (I'm still working on it) is on github
https://github.com/gmambro/LimeSurvey/tree/publicparticipant
I've mostly been a system administrator for 10 years but I've
developed some applications for system monitoring, configuration and
documentation. I've been developing my web interfaces mainly with
Perl, using Catalyst and DBIX::Class, or Python, with Django, but I'm
scared by working with PHP.
So, if you think I can be useful, here I am.
Gabriele
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Marcel Minke
2015-02-25 17:02:07 UTC
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Hi folks,

did anyone every have problems with Limesurvey links being treated as
linking to a phishing website?

For a certain Limesurvey system I am maintaining this now becomes a
serious issue. At that system there are lots of surveys using tokens and
it seems that even asking for the token makes Google believe that some
phishing is going on there.
This stupid behavior by Google is a real pain because people using
Google Chrome browser will see a warning and thus response rates get
down. You can test such a link at
http://impaqsurvey.com/index.php/survey/index/sid/439594/token/3axn6/lang/en/newtest/Y
to see the warning.

Google just tells users to fill a form at
https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_error/?tpl=emailer to
indicate that it is no phishing but to my experience this has little to
no effect.
When searching the web for other solutions I couldn't find any promising
alternatives to tell Google that their phishing classification fails and
causes as a headache.

Do you have any experience with such issues?

Is there anything you can recommend to fix this?

What can we do?

Thanks for any useful hints,
Marcel
--
Dr. Marcel Minke

Head Consultant at Limesurvey-Consulting.com
<http://www.limesurvey-consulting.com>
Owner of the Limesurvey Template Shop <http://www.limesurvey-templates.com>
Head of Support at Limesurvey <http://www.limesurvey.org>

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Gabriel Jenik
2015-02-25 20:35:37 UTC
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This may help:
https://www.badwarebusters.org/main/itemview/9961
Have you tried adding the site in the google webmasters tool?
When you do that, there is a validation process that may make google
remove the site from its phishing link.
Post by Marcel Minke
Hi folks,
did anyone every have problems with Limesurvey links being treated as
linking to a phishing website?
For a certain Limesurvey system I am maintaining this now becomes a
serious issue. At that system there are lots of surveys using tokens and it
seems that even asking for the token makes Google believe that some
phishing is going on there.
This stupid behavior by Google is a real pain because people using Google
Chrome browser will see a warning and thus response rates get down. You can
test such a link at
http://impaqsurvey.com/index.php/survey/index/sid/439594/token/3axn6/lang/en/newtest/Y
to see the warning.
Google just tells users to fill a form at
https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_error/?tpl=emailer to
indicate that it is no phishing but to my experience this has little to no
effect.
When searching the web for other solutions I couldn't find any promising
alternatives to tell Google that their phishing classification fails and
causes as a headache.
Do you have any experience with such issues?
Is there anything you can recommend to fix this?
What can we do?
Thanks for any useful hints,
Marcel
--
Dr. Marcel Minke
Head Consultant at Limesurvey-Consulting.com
<http://www.limesurvey-consulting.com>
Owner of the Limesurvey Template Shop
<http://www.limesurvey-templates.com>
Head of Support at Limesurvey <http://www.limesurvey.org>
Feel free to add me at LinkedIn <http://de.linkedin.com/in/marcelminke>
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Marcel Minke
2015-02-25 21:45:40 UTC
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Thanks for your feedback.

I had already added the main domain http://www.impaqsurvey.com/ at
webmastertools and confirmed it. There are no errors or security issues
shown there.
I am also not sure if the webmastertools can help at all. According to
(https://www.badwarebusters.org/main/itemview/9961): "/Verification
through webmaster tools is in no way related to getting your site off
the Google Phishing list. There is nothing, currently, available through
Webmaster tools to help you with this./"

I feel like this user (source:
https://www.badwarebusters.org/main/itemview/9961):
"/I have already send a verification request to google by using the
webmaster tools and the site is in status “VERIFIED”, there are no
problems found.//
//Besides, since 1 month I’m reporting to google
(http://sb.google.com/safebrowsing/report_error/) that the site is not
Phishing but it’s still the same 
.//
//I don’t know how it is possible to resolve that 
./"

Best regards,
Marcel
Have you tried adding the site in the google webmasters tool?
When you do that, there is a validation process that may make google
remove the site from its phishing link.
Hi folks,
did anyone every have problems with Limesurvey links being treated
as linking to a phishing website?
For a certain Limesurvey system I am maintaining this now becomes
a serious issue. At that system there are lots of surveys using
tokens and it seems that even asking for the token makes Google
believe that some phishing is going on there.
This stupid behavior by Google is a real pain because people using
Google Chrome browser will see a warning and thus response rates
get down. You can test such a link at
http://impaqsurvey.com/index.php/survey/index/sid/439594/token/3axn6/lang/en/newtest/Y
to see the warning.
Google just tells users to fill a form at
https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_error/?tpl=emailer to
indicate that it is no phishing but to my experience this has
little to no effect.
When searching the web for other solutions I couldn't find any
promising alternatives to tell Google that their phishing
classification fails and causes as a headache.
Do you have any experience with such issues?
Is there anything you can recommend to fix this?
What can we do?
Thanks for any useful hints,
Marcel
--
Dr. Marcel Minke
Head Consultant at Limesurvey-Consulting.com
<http://www.limesurvey-consulting.com>
Owner of the Limesurvey Template Shop
<http://www.limesurvey-templates.com>
Head of Support at Limesurvey <http://www.limesurvey.org>
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