2009/5/31 Colonna Francois <[email protected]>: > What can I do to tell wget which user is sending a request. > I tried > > wget --post-data='user=colonna&password=...&action...&format=xml' -O - > 'http://localhost/~wiki/mediawiki/api.php' > T.xml > > I still have : > > Action 'move' is not allowed for the current user > > Thanks for helping. > Francois Colonna You have to login first and pass the cookies you received; I'm not sure this is something wget can do, so you might wanna look for a more advanced client library that supports this. There are even dedicated client libraries for the MediaWiki API, see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_Code .
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