https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25174
Summary: boolean (url) variables are treated differently by the
api depending on if POST or GET is used
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.16
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: trivial
Priority: Normal
Component: API
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
I'm not 100% sure if this is even if this is a bug or not (And if it is, it
might be a php/apache bug, not a mediawiki bug), but it confused me for a
little bit.
Basically, make a GET request like
http://example.com/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Main%20Page&rvprop=content&rvgeneratexml
It works as expected. Now try POSTing the equivelent (with a content-type of
application/x-www-form-urlencoded):
action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Main%20Page&rvprop=content&rvgeneratexml
It doesn't work unless you have an = sign after the rvgeneratexml. This is
especially confusing because in the example given for the edit module it gives
the example
action=edit&title=Test&summary=NOTOC&minor&prependtext=__NOTOC__%0A&basetimestamp=20070824123454&token=%2B\
Which won't be marked as minor if POSTed.
(I discovered this trying to figure out why my bot's edit wasn't being marked
as bot. I was doing my testing using wget if it matters.).
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