2010/12/13 Gabriel Sandor &lt;gabi.t.sandor(a)gmail.com&gt;om>: There's no direct way to do this, although I guess it could be implemented. A workaround would be to do something like http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&text= <math>\gamma=\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-v^2}}</math>&format=yamlfm , which will give you the HTML generated for this <math> tag, which could be an image (like in this case), or HTML if the formula is sufficiently simple (try a^2+b^2=c^2 for instance). Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

2010/12/13 Gabriel Sandor &lt;gabi.t.sandor(a)gmail.com&gt;om>: Yes, POST works as well, for all API requests.

Is there any reason besides coder convenience for a client to ever GET instead of POST for API requests?

So eventually I tried this and indeed it works as expected. I have one more question though. I've seen that most of the complex math formulas are converted into .png images with some long names - for instance, the <math>\iiiint\limits_F \, dx\,dy\,dz\,dt</math> formula (triple integral) is converted into an image with the name 49005f50f3ba2dfade3a265ebe363ee9.png. I'd like to know, is this file name unique for each formula ? And is it persisted on the wiki's server indefinitely, just like other images in articles ? To be more clear, is the triple integral formula always going to be associated to this 49005f50f3ba2dfade3a265ebe363ee9.png file ? I'm trying to implement a cache mechanism in my app that tries to also deal with images generated from math markup (besides usual images in articles), that's why I have this curiosity. I'd like to know if I can safely associate a math markup string with a file name so that there's no need to retrieve the image from the server again when I encounter that formula. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Roan Kattouw &lt;roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote: