Thank you Brad,
And if I can summarize this announce with a bit of irony over our whole IT world:
"How to rise problems to the world just changing 2 little... tender... chars. Try
with 'Set-Cookie' → 'set-cookie' :^)
Happy hacking and thank you again
On April 8, 2020 6:31:34 PM GMT+02:00, "Brad Jorsch (Anomie)"
<bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Since April 2010,[1] when no lgtoken is passed to the
Action API
action=login it will return a "NeedToken" response including the token
to
use. While this method of fetching the login token was deprecated in
January 2016,[2] it is still present for the benefit of clients that
have
not yet been updated and is not (yet) being removed.
The NeedToken response was also being returned when an lgtoken was
supplied
but could not be validated due to session loss. While this made sense
back
in 2010 when the NeedToken response was the only way to fetch the login
token, these days it is mainly confusing[3] and a way for clients with
broken cookie handling to wind up in a loop.
With the merge of Gerrit change 586448,[4] the API will no longer
return
NeedToken when lgtoken was supplied. If the token cannot be validated
due
to session loss, a "Failed" response will be returned with a message
referring to session loss as the problem.
This change should be deployed to Wikimedia sites with 1.35.0-wmf.28 or
later, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap for a
schedule.
Note that the change HAS NOT been deployed to Wikimedia sites as of the
time of this email. If your client's ability to log in broke on 6 April
2020, the cause is most likely an unrelated change to Wikimedia's
infrastructure that caused some HTTP headers to be output with HTTP/2
standard casing, i.e. "set-cookie" rather than the traditional
"Set-Cookie". See
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249680 for details
and
further discussion of that situation.
[1]:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/64677
[2]:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2016-January/0…
[3]:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249526
[4]:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/586448
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