On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Andreas Mrvka <andreas.mrvka@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> wget --http-user=myuser --http-password=mypwd
> "https://localhost/wiki/api.php?action=query&prop=info|revisions&intoken=edit&titles=mynewpage&format=xml
>

[...]

>
> wget --http-user=myuser --http-password=mypwd --header="Content-Type:
> application/x-www-form-urlencoded" "https://localhost/wiki/api.php"
> --post-data "action=edit&title=mynewpage&text=test&token=$newtoken"

Besides percent-encoding the edit token, you also need to pass back
the cookies from the first request into the second.

You'll want to give the --keep-session-cookies and --save-cookies
options to the first wget command, and additionally --load-cookies to
the second.


--
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation

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