[Mediawiki-l] Re: External editor support.

[Jim Higson]

Jamie Bliss wrote:

> Jim Higson wrote:
>> Thanks Jamie.
>> 
>> Is that the whole story...? So, is it the role of the external editor to
>> do the uploading etc when the editing is finished? This seems unlikely
>> since very few editors will know how to do this. If so, how are
>> editTokens etc handled?
> 
> It seems to be.
> 
> Check ee.pl. It's the only external editor implementation I know of, and
> it actually works.

Ok, ta. I'll investigate it soon.

>> You probably know what I'm thinking. Although I'll try URL encoding
>> first, if external editors do all this they might be an elegant solution
>> to my problems saving.
> 
> For the record, that's a reference to a private e-mail between Jim and I
> when I mentioned pywikipediabot used application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> (URL encoding of fields) in it's edit POSTs, while Wikiwyg.org used
> multipart/form-data and is broken.

I've got thinking that I might be able to make a web-based external editor
to edit any MediaWiki. Only problem is the XMLHTTP security model only
allows requests to the same domain as the page.

Jim