action=edit using curl - Mediawiki-api

14 Dec 2010


      When I post from a form I have no trouble having action=edit work.
But when I send the same $postdata through a curl script I get: error
code="badtoken".
<?
$qstr=file_get_contents("php://input");
$url = "http://localhost:8888/hosted/hum211/api.php?action=edit";
$ch = curl_init();    // initialize curl handle
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); // set url to post to
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);// allow redirects
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); // return into a variable
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3); // times out after 4s
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); // set POST method
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $qstr); // add POST fields
$result = curl_exec($ch); // run the whole process
curl_close($ch);
echo $result;
?>
To check I tried sending both not to api.php but to some php that would just
display the postfilelds. They look exactly alike.
Not sure what to do next.
Timothy S. McKenna
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