Screen scraping is evil. I think your issue is HTTPS
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Steve Summit <s...@eskimo.com> wrote: > I have a bot editing script that started having trouble logging > in to the English Wikipedia a few days ago. I think what's > happening is that the login process started using Javascript in a > way it didn't before, and is detecting that my script doesn't do > Javascript (which it doesn't), and throwing a second, fallback, > non-Javascript-using login page at the point where the script is > expecting to have already logged in. > > So the question is, if this is the case, is there a way to force > the use of the non-Javascript login page from the beginning? > Or if this is not the case, is there some other recent change > that might have affected the flow? > > (And, in case you're wondering, no, the script does not use the > API, but yes, I know about it, and this may be the circumstance > that goads me into actually using it.) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
