Depending on what you are trying to do, you may be able to do it with the API instead of snoopy. I wrote a small php framework/class extension that allows you to easily do things from edits, to page creates with just some simple methods.

I used to do a lot of editing pre-api with snoopy so I may be able to go back and look for that is you are set on using it.

-Adam

On Jul 21, 2011, at 5:16 PM, Alok Watve wrote:

Hello

We have a mediawiki installation that we are using to maintain biodiveristy information. I want to write a custom bot which goes through a bunch of pages and makes some trivial changes periodically.

I am trying to write a bot to do this and I am using BasicBot class along with Snoopy (description is here : http://wikisum.com/w/User:Adam/Creating_MediaWiki_bots_in_PHP)

From the log files I can see that my bot logins successfully and gets a cookie brahma_session=VERY_LONG_HEX_NUMBER However, when he bot tries to use this cookie to login, it fails. I verified that apache receives the cookie but for some reason mediawiki does not recognize it and throws "login failure (or user not logged in to make change)" kind of error. Hence the bot fails to do any change.

Can anyone help me diagnose whats going wrong here ? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Alok

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