I can't login anymore using login.py on wikimedia sites. This is, I think, because of the recent changes with Global Auth / SUL.

This is not an immediate issue, because we can actually all use our bots, given that our cookies dont expire. But with time this is going to be annoying.

On a timeline aspect, Darkoneko told me that login.py was working yesterday morning, so this is quite recent.

So far, I can give you an HTTP response on a login (given that the right password is entered) :

Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 15:58:11 GMT Server: Apache X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.1 Cache-Control: private, s-maxage=0, max-age=0, must-revalidate Set-Cookie: frwiki_session=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; path=/; HttpOnly Set-Cookie: frwikiUserID=280295; expires=Sun, 29-Jun-2008 15:58:11 GMT; path=/; httponly Set-Cookie: frwikiUserName=DumZiBoT; expires=Sun, 29-Jun-2008 15:58:11 GMT; path=/; httponly Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie X-Vary-Options: Accept-Encoding;list-contains=gzip,Cookie;string-contains=frwikiToken;string-contains=frwikiLoggedOut;string-contains=frwiki_session;string-contains=centralauth_Token;string-contains=centralauth_Session;string-contains=centralauth_LoggedOut Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Location: http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Connexion&wpCookieChec... Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 20 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 X-Cache: MISS from sq24.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from sq24.wikimedia.org:3128 X-Cache: MISS from knsq29.knams.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from knsq29.knams.wikimedia.org:3128 X-Cache: MISS from knsq25.knams.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from knsq25.knams.wikimedia.org:80 Via: 1.0 sq24.wikimedia.org:3128 (squid/2.6.STABLE18), 1.0 knsq29.knams.wikimedia.org:3128 (squid/2.6.STABLE18), 1.0 knsq25.knams.wikimedia.org:80 (squid/2.6.STABLE18) Connection: close

We are given 3 cookies, but we previously expected one more cookie, frwikiToken, which is not available on the HTTP answer. Previously, when all the cookies werent sent back, we searched for a captcha in the page and sent again the post data with the captcha answer to retrieve the entire cookie.

However, here, there is no page content. The HTTP response is a 302, page temporarily moved, and the relocaton - from the header - is http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Connexion&wpCookieChec...

I don't know what is needed here : I tried retrieving that second page, and unsurprisingly, the HTTP response is a 403 forbidden, likely because I need to send along some data. The question is : what data exactly is needed ? Send again the same post data ?

X-vary-options mentions the missing cookie, frwikiToken, do you know what is that header entry ? Google searches return squid issues (and funny thing, patches from Tim Starling) : is it relevant here ? About squids, I consider the cache MISSes as normal, because squids can't handle login information, and just redirect us to a login server. Am I right on this one ?

Any help on this is welcome, I failed finding any related mediawiki documentation.

Most of all, if someone finds a fix, I'd really be interested by the walkthrough : I'm quite lost with that problem, not exactly knowing what I should test / try / check. And I need to learn how to do this :þ