https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62308
Bug ID: 62308
Summary: Attempting to use OAuth for a SUL wiki where you do
not have a user account causes 500 Internal Server
Error
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: OAuth
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: jalexan...@wikimedia.org
CC: aschulz4...@gmail.com, bjor...@wikimedia.org,
cste...@wikimedia.org, dga...@wikimedia.org
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I noticed this today while putting together a quick and dirty tool to do a
search on all wikis (using OAuth mostly because I could reuse my class). When
the script came to certain wikis it wasn't getting a legitimate response back
which at first I thought was just intermittent or I wasn't skipping closed
wikis correctly.
After some troubleshooting I realized I was getting a '500 Internal Server
Error' message back instead for those wikis and after checking a couple
realized it was the 2 dozen or so wikis where I didn't yet have a local
account. Obviously fixing that was easy (I clicked over to those wikis, my
account auto created, and I ran the search again) this doesn't seem to be how
we want the process to go.
For closed/fishbowl/private wikis I get a relatively nice json response saying
that I don't have an account there which works well. I guess, at least, sending
a message like that here would be nice. I would prefer, however, that it just
auto created the account as if I was 'visiting' for the first time since I kind
of am just in the form of my oauth token. My working assumption (based on no
real information and just on the symptoms) is that the wiki doesn't return a
'no account found' error because it hits a snag when it finds my oAuth
information in the centralWiki but doesn't find my local user account and so
'freaks out' and throws an error.
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