On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Max Semenik <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <
> [email protected]
> > wrote:
> > Note it will affect scripts and API clients that expect to see "+\" as
> the
> > token as a sign that they're logged out, or worse assume that's the token
> > and don't bother to fetch it.
>
> We had breaking API/frontend infrastructure changes before, this one seems
> less invasive and will break only badly written clients. In any case, most
> clients are intended for logged in users.
>

It still should be known that these will break and should be announced in
the proper place (mediawiki-api-announce) and time.


-- 
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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