On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw@gmail.com> wrote:

2009/5/31 Colonna Francois <colonna@lct.jussieu.fr>:

> What can I do to tell wget which user is sending a request.
> I tried
>
> wget --post-data='user=colonna&password=...&action...&format=xml' -O - 'http://localhost/~wiki/mediawiki/api.php' > T.xml
>
> I still have :
>
> Action 'move' is not allowed for the current user
>
> Thanks for helping.
> Francois Colonna

You have to login first and pass the cookies you received; I'm not
sure this is something wget can do, so you might wanna look for a more
advanced client library that supports this. There are even dedicated
client libraries for the MediaWiki API, see
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_Code .

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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