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ee.pl does not work
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Test url: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikinews/en/wiki/MediaWiki:Comments.js?action=edit&externaledit=true

Expected behaviour is that it works, actual behaviour is that vim pops up with an empty window.

Possibly something wrong with just my install. Wouldn't be surprised if I was just missing whatever library perl needs to do https. This is mostly a reminder to myself to investigate more later.

Version: master
Severity: normal
URL: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Comments.js?action=edit&externaledit=true

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bz29035

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:36 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-External-editors.
• bzimport set Reference to bz29035.
Bawolff created this task.May 18 2011, 12:17 PM
• brion added a comment.May 25 2011, 10:42 PM

ee.pl doesn't do a lot of error reporting; I had to hack in some checks but it turned out that internally the HTTP library was reporting back this error:

Can't locate object method "new" via package "LWP::Protocol::https::Socket"

This fixes it for me on Ubuntu 11.04:

sudo apt-get install libcrypt-ssleay-perl
• brion added a comment.May 25 2011, 10:46 PM

Added a note to that effect to INSTALL in r88855, but it should probably... catch the error and more explicitly complain.

• bzimport added a comment.Oct 31 2012, 1:05 AM

sumanah wrote:

Still happens on:

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Comments.js?action=edit&externaledit=true

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Comments.js?action=edit&externaledit=true

Bawolff added a comment.Oct 31 2012, 7:39 PM

(In reply to comment #3)

Still happens on:

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Comments.js?action=edit&externaledit=true

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Comments.js?action=edit&externaledit=true

Hmm? (Originally it worked on the first url). [I'm on a public computer or i would test].

• demon added a comment.Apr 11 2013, 4:22 PM

External editor support was removed in Ic3791d18. Use the API.

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