be able to fetch any information at all about it I think.
IIRC, the API only honors read rights when serving page *content*, and AFAIK the UI allows users to get information about unreadable pages too (Special:Allpages and friends, for example).
Isn't this different than the way the normal rights work?
Shouldn't the
API only allow pages on the white list to be read? Is there a good reason to go against MediaWiki's normal security design in the API?
Well, that's the thing -- if Special:Allpages is on the whitelist, then you can go to Special:Allpages and see everything Special:Allpages has to offer (a list of all pages).
If you can access the API...
Oops, ignore me; I read the originally completely incorrectly.
Thanks,
Ryan Lane