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If I have a <--#include virtual="foo" --> in some file, it gets stripped, even though other HTML comments don't get stripped. I imagine it's some plugin doing it, or IkiWiki itself, or an IkiWiki dependency, but I haven't found where this is happening. I'm trying to implement a workaround for my sidebars forcing a rebuild of the wiki every day - I use the calendar plugin - when the day changes, by using SSI.

> It is probably the [[plugins/htmlscrubber]] plugin. -- [[Jon]]

> htmlscrubber does strip these, because they look like
> a html tag to it, not a html comment. (html comments start
> with `<!--` .. of course, they get stripped too, because
> they can be used to hide javascript..)
> 
> Anyway, it makes sense for the htmlscrubber to strip server-side
> includes because otherwise your wiki could be attacked
> by them being added to it. If you want to use both the htmlscrubber and
> SSI together, I'd suggest you modify the [[templates]]
> and put the SSI on there.
> 
> Ie, `page.tmpl` has a 
> div that the sidebar is put into; if you just replace
> that with the SSI that includes your static sidebar,
> you should be good to go. --[[Joey]]

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