I notice that when the MediaWiki API is disabled (with $wgEnableAPI = false), this also disables auto-suggestions in the search box.

Assuming this is intentional... what's the friendliest way to forbid general web access to the API but still allow search suggestions to appear? I considered using the hook 'ApiBeforeMain' to return false unless action=opensearch. Is that the most reliable/friendly solution?

This is MediaWiki 1.28.0 with the default search engine, on an Ubuntu 16.04LTS host.

Thank you very much,
DanB


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