Ok thanks Roan. I thought so. Perhaps a note should be made on the Wiki documenting the API that the login parms on the query don't work.

I tried messing with the cookies using the php_http extension, and I eventually gave up when this error appeared: HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:02:05 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8d PHP/5.2.0 mod_apreq2-20051231/2.5.7 mod_perl/2.0.2 Perl/v5.8.7 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.0 Content-Length: 79 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html register_globals security paranoia: trying to overwrite superglobals, aborting.

How the heck did this happen?

Can someone write a simple sample PHP app that logs in issues query and echos the results? I thought this would be simple but evidently not.

Is there some additional setting/config I need to make on the wiki itself in order to allow a php program to issue a query just like a human using a browser?

sgg ---- Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@home.nl wrote:

sggraham@nc.rr.com schreef:

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So, am I misusing the login parms somehow on the query url? Are the login parms not working? Should I use cookie manipulation instead?

Yes, you should use cookies. You'll get a cookie sent to you on action=login, which you should send back at every next request. In PHP, Snoopy [1] makes handling cookies easier. Login parameters the way you tried to use them currently don't work. Maybe they will in the future, who knows.

Catrope

[1] http://snoopy.sourceforge.net/

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