From what I *understand* you don't have an account on the local wiki until
you visit there. Could perhaps whatever api methods used by the app not be
triggering this auto-account-creation process properly like a normal web
interface edit would?

-bawolff
On 2013-03-05 11:17 PM, "Jon Robson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> So an update. I'm pretty sure I've worked this out. CentralAuth will only
> work if the user has previously visited the wiki project the login attempt
> is made for. Many browsers these days refuse cookies for sites the user has
> not visited. I'm still investigating but I'm pretty sure an image to a URL
> counts as a previous visit.
> On 28 Feb 2013 13:07, "Juliusz Gonera" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On 02/27/2013 05:13 PM, Paul Selitskas wrote:
> >
> >> Do you use the same protocol in Wikipedia and other projects? When I
> >> first log in via HTTPS and then somehow get to HTTP, I need to log in.
> >>
> >
> > We use the same protocol. We enforce HTTPS after login, and later use
> > protocol agnostic URLs.
> >
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