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Bug 26538 - API Login session time limit
API Login session time limit
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
API (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2011-01-02 00:57 UTC by Smallman
Modified: 2014-10-30 20:05 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Description Smallman 2011-01-02 00:57:52 UTC 
For the API Login, it would be nice if there was a modifiable session time limit.

For example, a parameter lgsessionlimit=300

would mean that the sessionid would be valid for only 700 minutes (seconds would be silly). 

This would be primarily a security enhancement and make session hijacking more difficult if a bot op forgot (or couldn't) logout.
Comment 1 Sam Reed (reedy) 2011-06-05 21:52:42 UTC 
Unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be core functionality for this yet...
Comment 2 Umherirrender 2014-10-30 20:00:09 UTC 
(In reply to Sam Reed (reedy) from comment #1)
> Unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be core functionality
> for this yet...

time limited token support was added with Gerrit change #156336
Maybe with that feature it is possible to time limit the login token (or allow time limits for other tokens with a time param for meta=tokens)
Comment 3 Brad Jorsch 2014-10-30 20:05:45 UTC 
(In reply to Umherirrender from comment #2)
> time limited token support was added with Gerrit change #156336
> Maybe with that feature it is possible to time limit the login token (or
> allow time limits for other tokens with a time param for meta=tokens)

The time limit for the time-limited tokens is determined by whatever uses the token, not by what issues it.
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