https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31425

--- Comment #7 from Bruce Elrick <[email protected]> 2012-09-11 
20:53:28 UTC ---
Finally, I'll add that just the basic format of the action=login API URL tells
me that the API is assuming authentication in the URL which means it is not
supporting HTTP Basic authentication which is what Auth_remoteuser, a MediaWiki
extension, is designed to support.

So I think we have an incompatibility between the API and the extension, both
of which are Wikimedia's.  Is it possible for the maintainers within both areas
to work together?

As a use case, I have an Apache web server that does authentication against
Active Directory - I use Auth_remoteuser to import data such as the user name
and email address from the LDAP information.  This is very useful since new
MediaWiki accounts are automatically created and populated while the user only
has to enter their AD credentials.  This includes skipping the email
verification step.

Thanks,
Bruce

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