On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Prunka, Sean <prun...@battelle.org> wrote: > Our wiki (running 1.15.3) has a requirement to be logged in to view any > pages other than login and the Main_Page. > > By default this extends to the API, but I’m having trouble understanding how > to do the logins from an external PHP app w/ fopen. (can’t get the cookies > set up.) > > (We cannot use Snoopy, and the mangmt would prefer to not use cURL.) > > I am allowed to allow API calls w/o a login, given that our environment is > closed, and not accessible to (or from) the Internet. > > > > Is there a way to leave the required login in place for direct visits to our > wiki, but turn it off for API calls? > > Alternately, is there an example login script for PHP that uses fopen, > instead of cURL or Snoopy that I could modify for our needs? >
If cURL is absolutely not an option, you could accomplish what you're getting at by using PHP's stream_context_create[0]. -Chad [0] http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-create.php _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
