Yes, there is that. I'm happy to report that, after studying a variety
of solutions, we managed to resolve the problem by adapting that AJAX
to the problem. curl is not used in the solution.
Thanks
Jack
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Christensen, Courtney
<ChristensenC(a)battelle.org> wrote:
Oh, by the way, I forgot that there is some MediaWiki support for using AJAX with your
wiki:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Ajax
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I have instrumented the server to look at the header. This is what I
am inferring from what appears: curl does not deal with cookies. The
simplest test involves booting from a browser get, observing a cookie,
and also observing that the "referer" is the server. Absent a cookie,
the referer is wrong. So, it appears to me that cookies are the issue;
I find nothing useful in the PHP curl manual that suggests a way
around this. I'm interested in alternatives to curl. I forced the
wiki page to behave well by embedding the URL in an iframe. That works
well, but is not the approach necessary. May I ask for suggestions to
either alternatives to curl or for tricks that make curl behave nicely
with cookies?
Many thanks
Jack
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Jack Park <jackpark(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Firstly, memory says I turned it on.
Secondly, would the extension even access the server if it wasn't? I
ask that because, in fact, it does access the server one time, and
then seems to enjoy using a cache (which doesn't seem to exist
anywhere that I can find). I know that because I can watch the server
react when I refresh the MW page; I do not see the console activity I
see when the system is freshly booted.
Thanks
Jack
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Christensen, Courtney
<ChristensenC(a)battelle.org> wrote:
Jack Park said:
I thought this would be easy. Write an extension
with a CURL get
function that fetches some HTML from a server elsewhere that would
allow me to do AJAX fetches from that server using javascript supplied
from that server.
It's not happening. I get back status = 0 as if MediaWiki appears to
that server like a file:// or something.
I can call the same URL the CURL uses in a plain browser bar. I get
the HTML and then am able to get JSON strings back from the server,
but not when using the same html in MW.
Does any of that ring any bells?
Many thanks in advance.
Jack
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Hi Jack,
Any chance your PHP is not configured to allow the use of CURL?
-Courtney
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