I am using api.php?action=login... I run the login command from my java class and it returns successfully. I create the cookies manually as suggested in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Login. Within firefox I do show cookies and they are listed under localhost.
Immediately after the login statement I run an api query with "list=categorymembers."
If I have $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'= false;, I receive an error.
So my login does not seem to be working.
Thanks for any assistance.
Mary Beebe