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Dec 15 2016
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Aug 23 2016
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Oops. I saw a bunch of HTML and thought it was the page. Yeah, it's HTML-formatted JSON. My bad.
In T135170#2574023, @aaron wrote:In T135170#2574015, @MZMcBride wrote:Hmmm, why is this task still marked as open/needs triage? Is there anything left to do here?
The API I suppose.
Aug 22 2016
Aug 22 2016
Unready added a comment to T143531: Back out the change that changed action=purge to require a confirmation page.
In T143531#2571935, @Glaisher wrote:In T143531#2571415, @Unready wrote:Going forward, your script (or something like it) should be deployed in Common.js or maybe as a gadget on Wikipedia (etc.) ASAP. It probably would have been better to do that before requiring POST, but here we are now. The screams are only going to get louder.
.... I can submit a patch to core with that script improved to imitate the previous behavior (the exact behavior cannot be achieved since it will have to be done client-side) if someone (from Performance team?) can confirm that it can actually work reliably.
Unready added a comment to T143531: Back out the change that changed action=purge to require a confirmation page.
In T143531#2571231, @Glaisher wrote:... Your expectation about GET/POST is also wrong as GET is actually supposed to be retrieving data only not for modifying; ....
Unready added a comment to T143531: Back out the change that changed action=purge to require a confirmation page.
In T143531#2571182, @JEumerus wrote:To my understanding, translating GET to POST via JS is not a problem, applying GET directly to the request is, see T135170#2310146
Unready added a comment to T143531: Back out the change that changed action=purge to require a confirmation page.
Two questions ...
- Is there any point to the "purge" right now?
- Is requiring POST the first step toward requiring a token?
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