Tomer Chachamu wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:07:50 +0000, Jim Higson
<jh(a)333.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to programatically submit edits to my wiki via a http post,
> using XMLHTTP. However, I am unable to 'persuade' the server to accept
> them. The server always responds as if I'm asking for a preview.
>
> Either:
> * I'm not making the upload requests correctly
> * There is a server side security model that forbids this
> * I'm going mad :)
>
> You can see the form-data I'm sending by going here:
>
>
http://81.5.150.113/wysi/Very_small_test?debug=yes&action=edit
> then change the wikitext and click save, the request and response body
> will be shown on the right (which I use as a debugging area)
>
> Any help would be really appreciated, this is a real show-stopper for my
> project.
Are you loading the edit page first and taking the wpEditToken? You
need it. (It's used for various things, including detection of edit
conflicts.)
I wasn't aware of such a thing - this is obviously the problem.
Is is possible to request a token from the server without it generating a
page? (since the page will never be displayed) Or any another way that a
thick(er) client can submit edits.
I could just request an edit page in the background to get the token, but
doing so would defeat the object of a low-bandwidth, low-cpu wiki.
As an aside, what do people here think of this project? Personally I see a
lot of potential in this kind of 'half-thick' interface - the very quick
feedback when editing should make contributing a lot easier for those
starting to learn the wiki syntax.
Having thought it some more, I'm pretty sure the only way this can be solved
is to add recognition for &action=getedittoken to mediawiki. This would
return a tiny http response with just the token as text/plain. When the
server gets the token back, it would send back an "ok" or
"collision"- this
is editing equivalent of action=raw.
This would be useful for anyone who is trying to write a thick interface to
mediawiki, or any other kind of alternate edit tool.
Does this sound like an acceptable addition?