https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Login#Construct_cookies probably
needs to be updated - perhaps by removing the 'Construct cookies
manually' part entirely (since that sounds like asking for trouble!)
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Login#Construct_cookies probably
needs to be updated - perhaps by removing the 'Construct cookies
manually' part entirely (since that sounds like asking for trouble!)
Max already
Please note that the session cookie name on WMF wikis has changed from
wiki_session to wikiSession. That is, for example, enwiki_session
to enwikiSession.
This was done in response to a security issue -- we had to find some
way to rapidly cause all session IDs to be regenerated. Changing the
Head's up that this has broken login for mobile - the varnish conf for
mobilefrontend needs to be updated:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79837/
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Please note that the session cookie name on WMF wikis has changed