2011/4/14 Sreejith K. <sreejithk2...@gmail.com>: > The documentation for API:Login is not elaborate enough and I find it > confusing. I don't know whether I am the only one. This is the statement in > particular that I am finding difficult to comprehend. > > CentralAuth SUL Login > > ... > Now you have to parse the cookie by looking for the centralauth_ cookies and > adding additional entries for all other wikis that centralauth covers in > your setup. > The cookies I get when I log in (after I get a success message) is like > this. First, I do not understand why the domains for centralauth cookies is > not having the language code (in this case 'en'). That's intentional, so you can have one cookie for all *.wikipedia.org subdomains.
> I tried manually changing > it to en.wikipedia.org but that did not help. Don't. > Second, I am not sure whether > I create new cookies myself and give the names as enwiki_User, enwiki_Token > and enwiki_Session and then copy the domain and values. No, you just need to save these cookies and pass them back in subsequent requests just like the other cookies. I agree that the manual text suggests something else. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
