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