https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70656
Bug ID: 70656
Summary: Error message is unclear. "mustposttoken: The 'token'
parameter must be POSTed"
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: API
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: aaron.halfa...@gmail.com
CC: bjor...@wikimedia.org, bryan.tongm...@gmail.com,
roan.katt...@gmail.com, s...@reedyboy.net
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This error message happens when performing an edit via the API (action=edit).
It means that the token parameter must appear in the *body* of a POST request.
Surprisingly (to this dev), you can send a POST request with all of the data in
the query string of the URL. FWIW, the API will not accept the 'token' param
in the query string of a POST request.
The current error message ("The 'token' parameter must be POSTed") suggest to
me that the problem was that the request was not a POST requests (which it
obviously was). I think that this message ought to be changed to make it clear
that the problem was that the 'token' param did not appear in the *body* of the
request.
I propose:
"The 'token' parameter must be in the POST body."
Or perhaps more verbosely:
"The 'token' parameter was found in the query string, but must be in the POST
body."
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