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AWB Operation 'login' ended with result 'NeedToken'
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After running successfully for some weeks on my Windows 10 machine AWB has now stopped with an error message of "Operation 'login' ended with result 'NeedToken'.
Xml: '<?xml version="1.0"?><api><warnings><login xml:space="preserve">Fetching a token via action=login is deprecated. Use action=query&amp;meta=tokens&amp;type=login"

Frankly to me this message is as meaningless as a hexdump

Extensive end user efforts ie "switching it on and off again" and even "swearing at the machine" have not fixed the problem.

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WereSpielChequers created this task.Mar 1 2016, 10:21 AM
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jayvdb renamed this task from AWB to AWB Operation 'login' ended with result 'NeedToken'.Mar 1 2016, 10:56 AM
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Looks like this was broken by a recent backwards incompatible change in the MediaWiki API

Peachey88 subscribed.Mar 1 2016, 10:58 AM

Have you made sure you have the most update version installed?

WereSpielChequers added a comment.Mar 1 2016, 11:11 AM

Hi Peachey AWB version is 5.8.0.0

Peachey88 added a comment.Mar 1 2016, 11:15 AM

A quick google suggests 5.8.5.1 is current stable

Anomie closed this task as a duplicate of T126577: Cannot login to AutoWikiBrowser: "Fetching a token via action=login is deprecated. Use action=query&meta=tokens&type=login instead.".Mar 1 2016, 3:01 PM
Anomie subscribed.Mar 1 2016, 3:04 PM
In T128451#2075225, @jayvdb wrote:

Looks like this was broken by a recent backwards incompatible change in the MediaWiki API

Not really. The problem seems to have been that AWB was choking on the module returning a warning, which has always been a possibility in the API. See https://sourceforge.net/p/autowikibrowser/code/11887/.

Reedy subscribed.Mar 1 2016, 4:40 PM
In T128451#2075774, @Anomie wrote:
In T128451#2075225, @jayvdb wrote:

Looks like this was broken by a recent backwards incompatible change in the MediaWiki API

Not really. The problem seems to have been that AWB was choking on the module returning a warning, which has always been a possibility in the API. See https://sourceforge.net/p/autowikibrowser/code/11887/.

It's crappy XML and crappy XML parsing, as it mentions something about the token in the warning. Anyway, it's fixed, which is the main thing

WereSpielChequers added a comment.Mar 1 2016, 5:46 PM

I've downloaded the current AWB and things are running now. thanks everyone

Aklapper removed a subscriber: Anomie.Oct 16 2020, 5:39 PM
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