On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 12:25 PM, geoffreydebelie <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I had problems because of the +\\ in Bash. I was replacing those with
> their HTML encodings but that was preventing the code from functioning.
It's actually +\ (escaped as a JSON string). You might want to use
something JSON-aware like jq to process the response.
> Can I just pass the CSRF token ("edit token") to action=edit and expect
> the MediaWiki API to know who I am?
>
The API knows who you are from the session (so you need to use
cookie/cookie-jar or something similar). The CSRF token is just what its
name suggests - something that verifies that you were able to read the
content of the previous response.
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