On 27 January 2012 17:31, Dr. Trigon <dr.trigon@surfeu.ch> wrote:

I have a quite confusing situation happening to my bot when trying to
access any URL that points to foreign (but mediawiki software) wiki,
like this:

>>> pywikibot.getSite().getUrl(foreign_wiki_url, no_hostname =
>>> True)

But while doing
this the bot seems to log-out since afterwards it is not able to edit
any page anymore the "traceback" from the logs is:

Random guess: the bot sends the old site's cookies to the foreign wiki, gets new cookies back and writes those to the user-data file. Then in the next request it tries to use those cookies, which fails.

Check your cookie data file in user-data to confirm.

In any case: why are you trying to use a function that is clearly not made for this purpose, instead of using, say, urlopen, directly, or creating a family file?

Merlijn