Hi,

I just noticed that if you use the "redirect" option with the "action=query&prop=imageinfo" API, it does provide a <redirects> element as expected, but there's no image info? You need to do a new query with the redirected image name to retrieve it.

I think this is different behavior from "redirect" in the other APIs, where it provides the info with the redirect at the same time.

Is this a bug or expected?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=imageinfo&titles=File:Liberia%20court%20of%20arms.png&iiprop=timestamp%7Curl%7Csize%7Cdimensions%7Cmime%7Cmetadata&redirects&format=xmlfm&iiurlwidth=128&iiurlheight=128

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <redirects>
      <r from="File:Liberia court of arms.png" to="File:Coat of arms of Liberia.png" />
    </redirects>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="23044582" ns="6" title="File:Coat of arms of Liberia.png" imagerepository="" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=imageinfo&titles=File:Coat%20of%20arms%20of%20Liberia.png&iiprop=timestamp%7Curl%7Csize%7Cdimensions%7Cmime%7Cmetadata&redirects&format=xmlfm&iiurlwidth=128&iiurlheight=128

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="23044582" ns="6" title="File:Coat of arms of Liberia.png" imagerepository="local">
        <imageinfo>
          <ii timestamp="2009-06-01T14:04:00Z" size="14121" width="200" height="211" thumburl="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Coat_of_arms_of_Liberia.png/121px-Coat_of_arms_of_Liberia.png" thumbwidth="121" thumbheight="128" url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Coat_of_arms_of_Liberia.png" descriptionurl="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Liberia.png" metadata="" mime="image/png" />
        </imageinfo>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>

-Pierre

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Pierre-Olivier Latour

pol@cooliris.com