On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 9:57 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think the API documentation should probably be made a bit clearer as I > think there are now two deprecated ways of logging in. We should likely > make it more explicit which way applies to which versions of MediaWiki. > This allows developers to have a quicker and easier understanding when > determining how much compatibility code is needed in a specific > tool/script/application. > Using action=login is deprecated since 1.27, unless you use bot passwords. Using action=clientlogin is not deprecated. Using OAuth (which means not logging in at all) is also not deprecated. Bot passwords and clientlogin were added in 1.27; OAuth was added a while ago (although owner-only OAuth consumers were added in 1.27, and adding OAuth support to a bot is a lot more complex without those) but requires the OAuth extension to be installed. HTH. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
