Hi everyone,
If you're tired of repetitively prompting your users to approve your tool
(using MediaWiki oauth), here's a trick that might come in handy: you can
hit ".../w/index.php?title=Special:OAuth/authenticate" in the second leg of
the handshake instead of ".../w/index.php?title=Special:OAuth/authorize"
which would cause it to simply jump over to the callback URL if the user
has approved your tool at least once in the past. This works for authonly
or authonlyprivate grants only.
You can read up more about this here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OAuth/For_Developers#Avoid_repetitive_login_…
Note that the mwoauth library was recently updated to include this change
so you might just want to update it.
Thanks Brad(for writing it), Gergö (for telling Bryan) and Bryan (for
telling me).
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Niharika
Software Engineer (International)
Wikimedia Foundation
[User:NiharikaKohli]