I filed that yesterday as bug 46072<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46072>. ;)
I'll try to find time to review it before the weekend. On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > As some folks may recall, an action=createaccount was added to the API a > few weeks ago. Unfortunately the first pass didn't include CAPTCHA support, > so we haven't been able to use it for the live sites yet (which use > ConfirmEdit's "FancyCaptcha" mode). We expect to start using this in the > next couple weeks for the mobile Commons apps, so it's time to make it > captcha-friendly... > > I've made a first stab at adding support, based on the existing captcha > interfaces for login and editing: > > MediaWiki core: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/53793 > ConfirmEdit ext: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/53794 > > So far I've tested it with the default 'math captcha' mode, with this test > rig: https://github.com/brion/mw-createaccount-test > > > If a captcha needs to be run, action=createaccount will spit back a result > including a 'captcha' field including several subfields, such as in this > example: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:Account_creation#Captcha_additions > > Since account creation requires a first request to get a token anyway, > this shouldn't significantly add to the complexity of using the API. > > > Text captchas will have a 'question' subfield to be presented; image > captchas will have a 'url' field which should be loaded as the image. > 'type' and 'mime' will vary, and probably shouldn't be used too closely. > > Pass back the captcha id field in 'captchaid' and the response word in > 'captchaword' parameters along with the final request, and it should pass > the captcha. If the captcha doesn't pass, you get back new captcha info and > can continue. > > > Questions: > * Does this seem to make sense? :) > * Will other API users kill me for this or will it be easy to use? > * Any surprises that may turn up? > * Any bugs/style problems in my code so far? > > -- brion > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > -- Brad Jorsch Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation
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