[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Bugs-1985308 ] Bot does not properly stay logged in (cookies)

Tue Jan 27 16:40:07 UTC 2009

Bugs item #1985308, was opened at 2008-06-05 12:39
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Category: General
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 6
Private: No
Submitted By: Melancholie (melancholie)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Bot does not properly stay logged in (cookies)

Initial Comment:
My bot (r5514) does not stay properly logged in!

My first thought was this is because of the API_login, but it happens also for the normal login method. Is this maybe caused by SUL?

Or maybe by the following change?
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/pywikipedia?view=rev&revision=5514

See fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/بحث_کاربر:MelancholieBot#IP_contribution

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Comment By: Marc-Etienne Vargenau (vargenau)
Date: 2009-01-27 17:40

Message:
Bug still present for me also (Escarbot).

My way to solve it:
1) remove all files in login-data directory
2) python login.py -all -pass

Best regards,

Marc-Etienne

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2009-01-27 12:48

Message:
yes, the bug is still there. e.g. NobelBot made some edits under anon IP in
some wikis. cf. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=30_Rock&oldid=266368735 and
http://da.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=30_Rock&oldid=2787208

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2009-01-27 10:03

Message:
I've noticed several times that AWB session (rather than browser sessions),
if logged in with bot's account, may destroy interwiki bot's login data
triggering it to make edits under anonymous IP. Haven't tested if this
behaviour still remains with recent pywikipedia revisions.

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Comment By: siebrand (siebrand)
Date: 2009-01-27 09:33

Message:
Is this behaviour still current?

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2008-08-18 10:11

Message:
Logged In: NO 

It's odd, but the bug is intermittent and not all the wikis are affected.
Most affected wikis are: ast, da, de, ja, he, ka, ko, mk, rmy, ro, sr, tr.
Is there any way to definitely fix this bug?

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Comment By: Melancholie (melancholie)
Date: 2008-07-17 14:58

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=2089773
Originator: YES

For this, please see the comment of sswierkosz (at the very bottom)!

It's best to delete all login.data first, then run your bot without
logging out from your bot account by using a web browser in parallel.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2008-07-17 14:05

Message:
Logged In: NO 

Thanks for the hint. The bot doesn't asks for password now but it seems
like it still accidentally makes some edits under IP address. And it
overwrites login.data files with every login/edit, so the bug is still
there and needs to be fixed.

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Comment By: Melancholie (melancholie)
Date: 2008-07-16 02:24

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=2089773
Originator: YES

The easiest and best workaround is to use a password file!

Add the line
password_file = "yourFileName"
to your user-config.py

Provide yourFileName with the following line(s):
("yourBot", "yourPassword")

Login and re-login is done automatically then.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2008-07-15 22:21

Message:
Logged In: NO 

the bot asks for a password every time it tries to save a page.
"centralauth_Token" and "centralauth_Session" values in xxx-login.data
files change every time, and the bot doesn't stay logged in. any
workaround?

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Comment By: Carsrac (carsrac)
Date: 2008-06-06 10:38

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=2066902
Originator: NO

I have also problems. I need constantly enter in my password for several
wiki's and if I do it the bot makes tha edit under my ip adres instead of
username of the bot. The wiki that are effected are fr, ro, be, nds-nl, af,
hif, sah, srn. My ip adress is 213.132.164.186 and my bot user name is
CarsracBot. As you all know may IW bots do not any edits under its ip
adress. So I think this bug will effect very likely a lot of bots running
with pywikipedia script.

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Comment By: Szymon Świerkosz (sswierkosz)
Date: 2008-06-05 13:25

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=2022153
Originator: NO

I don't know if this is correct behavior, but it is certainly annoying.

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Comment By: Melancholie (melancholie)
Date: 2008-06-05 13:20

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=2089773
Originator: YES

@sswierkosz: Yes, maybe that could be the reason. MediaWiki bug?

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Comment By: Szymon Świerkosz (sswierkosz)
Date: 2008-06-05 13:07

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=2022153
Originator: NO

I noticed that if you log out all sessions are destroyed, not only
current. Maybe you logged in and then logged out using your bot account, so
its cookies are not valid anymore.

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