There are limited number of users. I'm currently operating on 1.25. How should I operate on the submit button as there are two API requests to make, for token and then authentication?
I've put two text boxes only. Also, is there any other method which won't require me to change after upgrading to 1.27? On Mar 17, 2016 8:12 PM, "Chris Steipp" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:27 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Be aware that using any other page than Speical:UserLogin to login can >> cause account compromises or session hijacking. >> > > To clarify, any administrator on your site will be able to add javascript > that could read your users passwords / hijack sessions / etc, so please, > only do this on a wiki where you have a limited number of sysops. > > In mediawiki before 1.27, you can do the entire login process via the api. > So just put the username/password boxes on the popup (along with the login > csrf token that you'll want to acquire when you show the dialog-- acquiring > it will start a browser session, so if you use a caching proxy for > performance, you want to start the session as late as possible), then > submit those to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Login. > > In 1.27, Auth/Session manager change many aspects of how the login process > works, so you'll likely have to redo your work when you upgrade. > > >> >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Raketa Me <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hey Palash, >> > Easiest way here is to follow Special:UserLogin data-structure for forms >> > and send data to the same script as Special:UserLogin do >> > >> > 17.03.2016 14:21, Palash Rastogi пишет: >> > >> > I want to create a login popup window in my wiki, so that the user does >> >> not go to a different page to login. Instead, a window should appear >> on the >> >> top of website for login sign up purposes. >> >> >> >> Creating a window asking for username and password is easy, but I am >> >> having difficulties with authenticating the data. I am not sure how to >> do >> >> it. I think it can be easily done by including the >> mediawiki.api.login.js >> >> file which is present in the /resources/src/mediawiki.api folder into >> the >> >> skin, but how to implement the function within the script? >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance for the help. >> >> >> >> -Palash >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > MediaWiki-l mailing list >> > To unsubscribe, go to: >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> To unsubscribe, go to: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
