mwlib should pass cookies for authentication for login-required wikis

[hexmode]

As per subject. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142924 and the related code.

That hack wouldn't be necessary if there were a way that mwlib could pass cookies the way that parsoid does.

[ckepper]

Hi Mark,

this is Christoph from PediaPress. Our team has changed quite a bit and I am not sure if I am able to fix this issue. What should I do?

Christoph

Am 16.08.2016 um 09:26 schrieb Mark A. Hershberger notifications@github.com:

As per subject. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142924 and the related code.

That hack wouldn't be necessary if there were a way that mwlib could pass cookies the way that parsoid does.

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[hexmode]

To fix this, you would need the process that MediaWiki talks to to store the cookies that MediaWiki sends so that when mwlib talks to MediaWiki, it can pass them back in.

On the MediaWiki side, MW needs to pass the cookies it gets from the user in its requests to mwlib. An example can be see in VisualEditor's code

[ckepper]

Sorry for the delay. Can you give an example of a wiki that is affected by this bug? It would be helpful for debugging/testing.