Last modified: 2010-02-08 06:33:02 UTC
When editing via API (using GET request and application/x-www-form-urlencoded parameters) GenericFormEncoding prevents editing and writes to the log: 192.2.3.1 AntiBot plugin AntiBot_GenericFormEncoding hit: <no action> [[<no title>]] "{|| some wikitext" 1) it would be useful to have some more information via the API which extension failed (and, if possible, why) 2) Either extensions should assume less about the how the edits are done (not always POST etc.) or use of some other hook should be introduced here to disregard API edits.
Umm, you can't edit with the API via GET whatsoever (regardless of what extensions you have installed), you need to POST. (I assume this is because GET actions are not supposed to have side-affects)
Sorry, I've made a mistake in the bug report. Of course I am using POST request, but the data are sent with Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded: POST /w/api.php Content-Length: 2248 Accept-Encoding: gzip User-Agent: PythonWikipediaBot/1.0 Host: www.... Cookie: <somecookies> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded The AnitBot plugin just requires anything POST'ed to be done with: Content-Type: multipart/form-data as specified on the MediaWiki HTML forms.
(In reply to comment #2) > The AnitBot plugin just requires anything POST'ed to be done with: > > Content-Type: multipart/form-data > > as specified on the MediaWiki HTML forms. That's a stupid limitation in Antibot that should be removed then.
It's just a sample plugin, designed to show how to write them, it's not the real thing. It's obvious that it will have false positives and it says so in the file header. There are two real plugins, which target specific bugs in XRumer. Neither of them are public due to the fear that the XRumer people may google for themselves and fix the bugs.
