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HTTP response format does not obey "format" param in some error cases
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Author: manos_lists

Description:
The HTML error page I got instead of JSON

Since i asked for JSON, thats what i should have got instead of the attached HTML page :-)

I suppose the API can only cover this up to somewhere and after that it's an infrastructure thing, so this may belong to the "Wikimedia" product. Anyway, the error at the bottom of the page (screenshot also attached ):

Request: GET http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&list=categorymembers&action=query&cmlimit=10&cmtitle=Category:Greece&callback=SarissaAnonymous0, from 88.218.118.121 via knsq24.knams.wikimedia.org (squid/2.6.STABLE18) to ()
Error: ERR_ACCESS_DENIED, errno [No Error] at Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:27:32 GMT

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&list=categorymembers&action=query&cmlimit=10&cmtitle=Category:Greece&callback=SarissaAnonymous0

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screnshot.png (396×1 px, 90 KB)

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bz13762

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:07 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Action-API.
• bzimport set Reference to bz13762.
• bzimport created this task.Apr 16 2008, 12:09 PM
Catrope added a comment.Apr 16 2008, 12:14 PM

Hmm. It appears that this error message is output somewhere in WebStart.php or in a file included by it. That should be changed so that index.php and api.php can format the error each their own way.

• bzimport added a comment.Apr 16 2008, 12:16 PM

Bryan.TongMinh wrote:

WONTFIX, this error is generated by the squids and not by the API. On the other hand, the fact that & gives a ERR_ACCESS_DENIED is something that is very strange.

• bzimport added a comment.Apr 16 2008, 12:39 PM

manos_lists wrote:

Good catch on the & Bryan, thanks. Still think this maybe should be moved from the "API" to the "Wikimedia" product.

• bzimport added a comment.Apr 16 2008, 12:45 PM

Bryan.TongMinh wrote:

Already filed as Bug 13763.

Hmmm actually it is INVALID rather than WONTFIX, not?

• bzimport added a comment.Apr 16 2008, 12:49 PM

manos_lists wrote:

True in any case; besides being irrelevant to API, changing & to & fixed it for me.

• brion added a comment.Apr 16 2008, 7:06 PM
  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10733 ***
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