[Maniphest] [Commented On] T91439: API returns 'no-external-page' for existing pages with titles that look like a domain name (e.g. "ubermorgen.com" or "delocator.net") - Pywikipedia-bugs

3 Mar 2015


      despens added a comment.
Apparently, `normalizePageName` in `MediaWikiSite` doesn't follow redirects. `MediaWikiSite` writes this error log:
2015-03-03 23:42:47 catalog wiki: call to <//catalog.rhizome.org/api.php?action=query&prop=info&redirects=1&converttitles=1&format=json&titles=Delocator.net> returned bad json: <html>
  <head>
  <title>Security redirect</title>
  </head>
  <body>
  <h1>Security redirect</h1>
  <p>
  We can't serve non-HTML content from the URL you have requested, because
  Internet Explorer would interpret it as an incorrect and potentially dangerous
  content type.</p>
  <p>Instead, please use <a href="https://catalog.rhizome.org/api.php?action=query&amp;prop=info&amp;redirects=1&amp;converttitles=1&amp;format=json&amp;titles=Delocator.net&amp;*">this URL</a>, which is the same as the
  URL you have requested, except that "&amp;*" is appended. This prevents Internet
  Explorer from seeing a bogus file extension.
  </p>
  </body>
  </html>
When appending `&amp:*` to the original API request in `includes/site/MediaWikiSite.php:136`, like this:
$url = wfAppendQuery( $this->getFileUrl( 'api.php' ), $args ). '&amp;*';
the request works and `normalizePageName` returns a valid page name.
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  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91439
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