On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:38 PM, Nicolas Vervelle nvervelle@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't followed the latest modifications on action login, but users of WPCleaner have been complaining for a few days that they couldn't do any modifications through WPCleaner, getting an error message saying that they must be logged in to update pages.
I was away for few days, so I didn't have a chance to look at that before now. After a quick investigation, I found that action login doesn't return a lgtoken in its answer, just a lguserid and a lgusername.
Is it normal that lgtoken is not returned anymore ? What's the correct way to login through the API that won't break again in the next months ?
The relevant deprecation announcement is https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2015-December/003677.htm... In short, rely on standard HTTP semantics for cookie handling. WPCleaner is written in Java so this probably means using a CookieManager.
If you haven't been following API deprecation notices for the last ten or so months, https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2016-January/003686.html might also be of interest.