That's the documentation I saw and based the patch on, and I think  
there was a fair amount of general confusion about why it would be  
documented and not work. So now it does.


On Nov 3, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote:

> Roan Kattouw schreef:
>> Yuri Astrakhan schreef:
>>
>>> Excelente, thx Roan :)
>>> Please make sure mw:API docs reflect the new behavior.
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for reminding me, I'd forgotten.
>>
> I checked the docs, and it turns out the new behavior is *already*
> described there, which is pretty weird:
>
> In every call to api.php, the three values must either be passed as
> additional parameters, or as cookies within the request header. If any
> of the login values are given as part of the request, all cookie  
> values
> are ignored. Please note that user name is passed in as '''lgname''',
> but returned as normalized '''lgusername'''. The first is used for
> authentication, whereas the second may be passed together with
> '''lgtoken''' and '''lguserid''' as tokens when making calls to other
> modules.
>
> (from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Login )
>
> Roan Kattouw
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