Please note that the API follows unlimited number of redirects (taking care of the circular ones), although this is mostly irrelevant to this discussion. --Yuri
On Dec 14, 2007 10:37 AM, Paolo Liberatore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Jan Hecking wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the reminder, Paolo! I hadn't considered index.php before > > because I assumed it only returns the rendered HTML markup. But now I > > saw that there is an action=raw parameter which returns the raw wiki > > markup that I'm looking for. However this API has one other drawback: In > > contrast to api.php it doesn't have an option to resolve redirects > > automatically. When calling api.php I was using the redirects parameter > > to do so but this doesn't seem to be supported by index.php when using > > action=raw (only for action=view). That means I would potentially have > > to make multiple calls to resolve redirects manually. Or is there a way > > to avoid this? > > > > Thanks, > > Jan > > > > You never need to call it more than twice, because a redirect that points > to another redirect is in fact non-functional in the regular interface. > I don't think there is a way to make index.php automatically redirect > with action=raw; however, you can also use action=render (this is also > compatible with the 'redirect' argument, I'll fix the MW page). > > Paolo > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >
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