Marcus Ramsden schreef: > > Hi, > > > > I am getting an issue using the edit action of the MediaWiki API. > Whenever I send an edit request I am getting an error response stating > badtoken. The question I have is which token is this referring to. Is > this referring to my cookie token which I have instructed curl to > store or is it referring to the edit token. > The badtoken error always refers to the edit token. > > > > The login operation is given the following parameters using a POST > request; > > action=login&lgname=<bot username>&lgpassword=<bot password>&format=php > > > > To obtain the token I am using the following parameters in a GET request ; > > action=query&intoken=edit&titles=IBWikiBotTest&prop=info|revisions&format=php. > > > > > > The following parameters are then used as part of a POST request in > the attempt to create a new page; > > action=edit&title=IBWikiBotTest&summary=Page created by the > IBWikiBot.&text=This is some test content added by the > IBWikiBot.&md5=e21e79d8ee8ee6b5038c9bac090decf1&bot&recreate&token=0e72e13613a9408646cae5aa1a630d0a+\\&format=php > Try removing the second backslash (you don't need to escape backslashes in URLs) and encoding the + as %2B (if you don't do that, it could end up being converted to a space).
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