Marcus Ramsden schreef:
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> Hi,
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> 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.
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> The login operation is given the following parameters using a POST 
> request;
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> action=login&lgname=<bot username>&lgpassword=<bot password>&format=php
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> To obtain the token I am using the following parameters in a GET request ;
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> action=query&intoken=edit&titles=IBWikiBotTest&prop=info|revisions&format=php.
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> The following parameters are then used as part of a POST request in 
> the attempt to create a new page;
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> 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
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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).

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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