https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22603
Summary: Incomplete site info request gives improperly
formatted return
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.3.0
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: Normal
Component: API
AssignedTo: roan.katt...@gmail.com
ReportedBy: m8r-udf...@mailinator.com
CC: bryan.tongm...@gmail.com, s...@reedyboy.net,
vasi...@gmail.com, soxre...@gmail.com
When looking at
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop
It returns:
You are looking at the HTML representation of the XML format.
HTML is good for debugging, but probably is not suitable for your application.
See complete documentation, or API help for more information.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api />
This is not valid xml.
What it should return is: (as when you look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&sipro)
You are looking at the HTML representation of the XML format.
HTML is good for debugging, but probably is not suitable for your application.
See complete documentation, or API help for more information.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
<query>
<general mainpage="Main Page" base="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page";
sitename="Wikipedia" generator="MediaWiki 1.16alpha-wmf"
phpversion="5.2.4-2ubuntu5.7wm1" phpsapi="apache2handler" dbtype="mysql"
dbversion="5.1.43-wm3193-log" rev="59858" case="first-letter" rights="Creative
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported" lang="en"
fallback8bitEncoding="windows-1252" writeapi="" timezone="UTC" timeoffset="0"
articlepath="/wiki/$1" scriptpath="/w" script="/w/index.php"
variantarticlepath="" server="http://en.wikipedia.org"; wikiid="enwiki" />
</query>
</api>
There is a related thread at WP:VPT
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vpt#API_version)
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