Hi, I just created a small patch for the problem of changing Moin cookie name. It is a simplification in reality :). The file ~/.moin_ids should contain name/value cookie pairs (MOIN_SESS.....=<id>).
The corresponding extraction command from Firefox db is: sqlite3 -separator ' ' ~/.mozilla/*/*.default/cookies.sqlite \ "SELECT 'https://' || host, name || '=' || value FROM moz_cookies WHERE name LIKE 'MOIN_SESSION%'" >~/.moin_ids Example: zito@bobekpc:~/deb/editmoin-1.17$ fgrep localhost ~/.moin_ids https://localhost MOIN_SESSION_80_ROOT_MyWiki=92857dbbe9c40573f2f81d001eca7b4beb6322e2 https://localhost MOIN_SESSION_80_ROOT_MyWiki2=ca7337dc28b2b7834372a8bb72cc62c472e85e94 The manual page should be corrected accordingly. Hope it will work Cheers -- Zito
--- editmoin.orig 2017-09-12 12:32:49.533875187 +0200 +++ editmoin 2017-09-12 12:32:52.637876860 +0200 @@ -333,16 +333,13 @@ raise Error, "no suitable url found for shortcut '%s'" % shortcut -def get_urlopener(moinurl, cookievalue=None, cookiename="MOIN_SESSION"): +def get_urlopener(moinurl, cookie=None): urlopener = urllib.FancyURLopener() proxy = os.environ.get("http_proxy") if proxy: urlopener.proxies.update({"http": proxy}) - if cookievalue: - # moinmoin < 1.6 - urlopener.addheader("Cookie", "MOIN_ID=%s" % cookievalue) - # moinmoin >= 1.6 - urlopener.addheader("Cookie", "%s=%s" % (cookiename, cookievalue)) + if cookie: + urlopener.addheader("Cookie", cookie) return urlopener def fetchfile(urlopener, url, id, template): @@ -443,7 +440,7 @@ for morsel in cookie.values(): sw = morsel.key.startswith if sw("MOIN_SESSION") or sw("MOIN_ID"): - return morsel.key, morsel.value + return "%s=%s" % (morsel.key, morsel.value) raise Error("Couldn't obtain session cookie from server") def edit(url, template=None, editfile_func=editfile): @@ -456,24 +453,14 @@ user = get_user(url) if user: # Moin >= 1.7 - cookiename, cookievalue = get_session_cookie(user, url) - urlopener = get_urlopener(url, cookievalue, cookiename) - moinfile = fetchfile(urlopener, url, cookievalue, template) + cookie = get_session_cookie(user, url) + urlopener = get_urlopener(url, cookie) + moinfile = fetchfile(urlopener, url, cookie, template) else: # Moin < 1.7 - cookievalue = get_id(url) - moinfile = None - for cookiename in ("MOIN_SESSION_80_ROOT", "MOIN_SESSION_443_ROOT"): - try: - urlopener = get_urlopener(url, cookievalue, cookiename) - moinfile = fetchfile(urlopener, url, cookievalue, template) - break - except: - pass - if not moinfile: - urlopener = get_urlopener(url, cookievalue) - moinfile = fetchfile(urlopener, url, cookievalue, template) - + cookie = get_id(url) + urlopener = get_urlopener(url, cookie) + moinfile = fetchfile(urlopener, url, cookie, template) try: page_edited = editfile_func(moinfile) if page_edited: