Rework Special:Upload JS to use api and serverside upload checks
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	TheDJ
	Jul 1 2010, 8:00 PM

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It would be best if we retooled upload.js into a single ajax/api call.

one that checks for:
-name exists
-name allowed (file extensions checks)
-name normalization (think $wgCapitalizedNamespaces)

Better to do these checks serverside, then to reproduce them (often incompletely) in Javascript on the clientside.

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Severity: enhancement

Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Resolved		None	T26731 certain file types are blocked for uploading
Resolved		Umherirrender	T25583 Special:Upload JS does not consider wgCheckFileExtensions
Open	Feature	None	T26217 Rework Special:Upload JS to use api and serverside upload checks

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Is this still valid?

@matmarex I know you guys changed quite some things in the upload script pipelines, not sure if this was part of it/came up.

We didn't touch it, but Special:Upload does some AJAX checks these days.

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:00 AM