[Pywikipedia-l] Bot can't log in

stanlekub stanlekub at free.fr
Thu Apr 8 16:41:30 UTC 2010


Le jeudi 08 avril 2010 à 18:18 +0200, Michael Weber a écrit :
> Okay, now it says "Logging in to wikipedia:en as PotatoBot via API."
> and then stops doing anything.

Mediawiki's login action was changed yesterday (7/04/10) to prevent a
CSRF vulnerability[1].

Pywikibot was updated soon after this to take these changes into
account[2], are you sure you've updated you're copy since then ?

stanlekub


[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23076
[2]
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/login.py?r1=8055&r2=8061




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