Citation Bot not logged in when trying to do auto-expansion
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	kaldari
	Mar 4 2016, 11:48 PM

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See bug report at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Citation_bot#Bot_has_been_logged_out.

From the talk page:

Or it could be that the bot isn't properly handling cookies: it copies the Set-Cookie headers from the initial call to action=login (without correctly handling deleted cookies), then it manually constructs cookies from the deprecated response values which are likely to be failing to be valid anymore with the increased validation of the session data. Anomie⚔ 01:14, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

The bot should be updated to use proper log-in procedures.

Code lives at https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot.

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Bug can be reproduced by clicking "Expand citations" in the sidebar at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Star_Wars.

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Josve05a awarded a token.Apr 10 2016, 6:18 PM

Please... :/

Could the tasks "Relogging the bot" and "update to use an appropriate PHP MediaWiki API client library"be split in to different tasks, so that the bot could be relogged and be used in the meantime...or isn't it that simple?

@Josve05a: Changed as you suggested.

kaldari updated the task description. (Show Details)Apr 29 2016, 2:14 PM

Current login function lives at expandFns.php: logIn().

@Josve05a: Submitted a pull request: https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/106

Now we just have to hope that Martin is still around to merge and deploy it.

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In T128926#2254056, @kaldari wrote:

@Josve05a: Submitted a pull request: https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/106

Now we just have to hope that Martin is still around to merge and deploy it.

He merged it. Any way we can get the bot operational again?

@Josve05a: He merged it, but hasn't actually updated the code on Tool Labs. I'll see if I can track down one of the project maintainers to run git pull.

Fixed now and the gadget has been updated.

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Citation Bot not logged in when trying to do auto-expansionClosed, ResolvedPublic5 Estimated Story PointsActions

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Citation Bot not logged in when trying to do auto-expansion
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