Postorius has CSRF protection so adapting this will be more complicated as you will need to 1) hit the subscription endpoint (which also does the MM2 or MM3 check by checking the response) 2) extract the CSRF token 3) pass back the same cookies to <stuff>/anonymous_subscribe with the token and email address.
It might just be easier to provide a link saying "sign up for mediawiki-announce" but I doubt we'd get the same conversion rate.
It might just be easier to provide a link saying "sign up for mediawiki-announce" but I doubt we'd get the same conversion rate.
Do we actually get that many anyway from it?
I get numerous ticket systems replying. Numerous "you can't send to this address" and occasionally a few people wanting to unsubscribe.
Well...no. It's totally broken after we added CSRF to it a few years ago:
km@cashew ~> curl -X POST -F "email=legoktm@wikimedia.org" -F "language=en" -F "digest=0" "https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/subscribe/mediawiki-announce"
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<h1>MediaWiki-announce Subscription results</h1>
There was no hidden token in your submission or it was corrupted.
<p>You must GET the form before submitting it.
<hr><address><a href="../listinfo/mediawiki-announce">MediaWiki-announce</a> list run by <a href="mailto:mediawiki-announce-owner@lists.wikimedia.org">mediawiki-announce-owner at lists.wikimedia.org</a><br><a href="../admin/mediawiki-announce">MediaWiki-announce administrative interface</a> (requires authorization)<br><a href="../listinfo">Overview of all lists.wikimedia.org mailing lists</a><p>
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</html>Given that no one has noticed until now probably a link is good enough?
So I dug through the logs a bit, in the month of April, there were 592 POSTs to the mediawiki-announce subscribe page, from a user-agent matching "MediaWiki/1.". (actually an interesting datapoint on which versions of MediaWiki are being installed!)
I think that's actually a high enough number to worth supporting.
legoktm@lists1001:/var/log/apache2$ zgrep "http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/subscribe/mediawiki-announce" lists.wikimedia.org-access.log*.gz | grep "POST" | grep "MediaWiki/1." | awk '{print $12}' | sort |uniq -c
1 MediaWiki/1.19.24
1 MediaWiki/1.23.10
1 MediaWiki/1.24.1
3 MediaWiki/1.24.2
1 MediaWiki/1.25.1
1 MediaWiki/1.25.3
19 MediaWiki/1.27.1
2 MediaWiki/1.27.4
4 MediaWiki/1.28.0
1 MediaWiki/1.29.2
1 MediaWiki/1.30.0
2 MediaWiki/1.30.2
1 MediaWiki/1.31.0
10 MediaWiki/1.31.12
13 MediaWiki/1.31.14
4 MediaWiki/1.31.7
1 MediaWiki/1.32.0
1 MediaWiki/1.33.0
5 MediaWiki/1.33.1
1 MediaWiki/1.33.3
4 MediaWiki/1.33.4
3 MediaWiki/1.34.0
1 MediaWiki/1.34.4
24 MediaWiki/1.35.0
223 MediaWiki/1.35.1
259 MediaWiki/1.35.2
1 MediaWiki/1.36.0-alpha
4 MediaWiki/1.37.0-alphaChange 685493 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; author: Jforrester):
[mediawiki/core@master] WebInstaller: Don't show the announce-l subscribe checkbox temporarily
Change 685886 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Jforrester):
[mediawiki/core@REL1_36] WebInstaller: Don't show the announce-l subscribe checkbox temporarily
Change 685887 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Jforrester):
[mediawiki/core@REL1_35] WebInstaller: Don't show the announce-l subscribe checkbox temporarily
Change 685888 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Jforrester):
[mediawiki/core@REL1_31] WebInstaller: Don't show the announce-l subscribe checkbox temporarily
Change 685493 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] WebInstaller: Don't show the announce-l subscribe checkbox temporarily
Change 685888 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@REL1_31] WebInstaller: Don't show the announce-l subscribe checkbox temporarily
Change 685887 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@REL1_35] WebInstaller: Don't show the announce-l subscribe checkbox temporarily
Change 685886 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@REL1_36] WebInstaller: Don't show the announce-l subscribe checkbox temporarily
Change 715330 had a related patch set uploaded (by PleaseStand; author: PleaseStand):
[mediawiki/core@master] Installer: Fix mediawiki-announce auto subscription code
Change 715330 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Installer: Fix mediawiki-announce auto subscription code
Change 716102 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: PleaseStand):
[mediawiki/core@REL1_36] Installer: Fix mediawiki-announce auto subscription code
Change 716457 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: PleaseStand):
[mediawiki/core@REL1_35] Installer: Fix mediawiki-announce auto subscription code
Change 716457 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@REL1_35] Installer: Fix mediawiki-announce auto subscription code
Change 716102 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@REL1_36] Installer: Fix mediawiki-announce auto subscription code