[Bug 31425] Mediawiki::API does not work with Auth_remoteuser (using Basic Authentication)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31425 --- Comment #8 from Bruce Elrick 2012-09-14 17:24:11 UTC --- After some digging I've found the opposite, that indeed the API as written does not require action=login and that, with the Auth_remoteuser extension configured, you can hit other action=X URLs with a browser, Apache will properly respond with a 401 Unauthorized, the browser will prompt for a username/password, then Apache and the api.php will deliver a proper API response page as expected. This means that indeed the CPAN MediaWiki::API module must be the location of the incompatibility - it must assume that an action=login request must proceed any other request. I'll start digging there. Thanks, Bruce -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31425] Mediawiki::API does not work with Auth_remoteuser (using Basic Authentication)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31425 --- Comment #7 from Bruce Elrick 2012-09-11 20:53:28 UTC --- Finally, I'll add that just the basic format of the action=login API URL tells me that the API is assuming authentication in the URL which means it is not supporting HTTP Basic authentication which is what Auth_remoteuser, a MediaWiki extension, is designed to support. So I think we have an incompatibility between the API and the extension, both of which are Wikimedia's. Is it possible for the maintainers within both areas to work together? As a use case, I have an Apache web server that does authentication against Active Directory - I use Auth_remoteuser to import data such as the user name and email address from the LDAP information. This is very useful since new MediaWiki accounts are automatically created and populated while the user only has to enter their AD credentials. This includes skipping the email verification step. Thanks, Bruce -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31425] Mediawiki::API does not work with Auth_remoteuser (using Basic Authentication)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31425 --- Comment #6 from Bruce Elrick 2012-09-11 20:43:46 UTC --- Oh, and if you have definitive evidence that the problem is on the other side, could you update the problem ticket at the CPAN site? Thanks, Bruce -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31425] Mediawiki::API does not work with Auth_remoteuser (using Basic Authentication)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31425 Bruce Elrick changed: What|Removed |Added CC||bruce.elr...@pennwest.com --- Comment #5 from Bruce Elrick 2012-09-11 20:35:27 UTC --- MediaWiki maintainers here say this is a CPAN MediaWiki::API Perl module problem. However at the CPAN site they say the opposite: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=71501 I say both sets of maintainers have not spent any significant time looking at where this problem lies. Could you at least take a look on your side? Thanks, Bruce -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31425] Mediawiki::API does not work with Auth_remoteuser (using Basic Authentication)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31425 Roan Kattouw changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution||INVALID --- Comment #4 from Roan Kattouw 2011-10-06 13:46:23 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > Well, I'm not sure whether you can consider it a bug or simply a new feature > but it certainly against the "MediaWiki::API Perl module" In that case, you're in the wrong place. This bug tracker is only for MediaWiki and its extensions. We don't maintain the perl module and don't track bugs for it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31425] Mediawiki::API does not work with Auth_remoteuser (using Basic Authentication)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31425 --- Comment #3 from Roberto Santoro 2011-10-06 13:45:36 UTC --- Well, I'm not sure whether you can consider it a bug or simply a new feature but it certainly against the "MediaWiki::API Perl module" -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31425] Mediawiki::API does not work with Auth_remoteuser (using Basic Authentication)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31425 --- Comment #2 from Daniel Friesen 2011-10-06 13:42:54 UTC --- (In reply to comment #1) > Are you reporting a bug against the MediaWiki::API Perl module, or against > api.php itself? Maybe even against the extension itself. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31425] Mediawiki::API does not work with Auth_remoteuser (using Basic Authentication)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31425 --- Comment #1 from Roan Kattouw 2011-10-06 13:41:57 UTC --- Are you reporting a bug against the MediaWiki::API Perl module, or against api.php itself? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
