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Bug 339793

Summary:

[patch] support authentication (+cookies) for mediawiki pages behind requiring it

Product:

z_Archived

Reporter:

Endre Kovács <ekovacs>

Component:

Mylyn

Assignee:

Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>

Status:

RESOLVED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

greensopinion

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
proposed patch for mediawiki-wikitext authentication support	none
patch recut against the head of wikitext git repo.	none
mylyn/context/zip	none

Description Endre Kovács

2011-03-12 11:30:00 EST

Build Identifier: 20100917-0705

the ant task mediawiki-to-eclipse-help exposed by mylyn wikitext module has the capability to fetch mediawiki pages from the internet by using an inputstream on the URL computed for the resource.

(line 228, org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.wikitext.mediawiki.core.tasks.WikiToDocTask.class in org.eclipse.mylyn.wikitext.mediawiki.core_1.3.0.v20100608-0100-e3x.jar)

the request would be to implement two more argument for the task so that we could pass in a name and a pass for authenticating our wikipage. 

OR

one argument which would be an input text file that would contain cookie entries for the authentication of this task for the given URL.

i manage to attain such cookie files by calling out for CURL or WGET from my ant file.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. write ant script using mediawiki-to-eclipse-help
2. give a mediawiki page that requires authentication as value for the argument "wikiBaseUrl"
3. running the script cannot get the content of the wikipage because that needs authentication

Comment 1 David Green

2011-03-14 13:16:44 EDT

Thanks for the feature request.  Feel free to submit a patch.

Comment 2 Endre Kovács

2011-03-16 18:27:04 EDT

Created attachment 191363 [details]
proposed patch for mediawiki-wikitext authentication support

Just created a small patch that did the auth. for me. also minor modification on imagefetching strategy.
altogether seem to work well.

Comment 3 David Green

2011-03-18 20:30:04 EDT

Endre, thanks for the patch.  Can you please re-cut the patch against the latest (in the Git repository)?   It seems that this patch was produced against an older version of WikiText.

Comment 4 Endre Kovács

2012-02-24 12:29:07 EST

Created attachment 211590 [details]
patch recut against the head of wikitext git repo.

re-cutting patch against org.eclipse.mylyn.docs/.git
as requested.

Comment 5 David Green

2012-02-27 18:11:22 EST

Thanks Endre.  I've pushed the patch out to Gerrit for review: http://review.mylyn.org/#change,336

The contribution looks good.  I've added some comments to the review - please take a look when you get the chance.

Comment 6 David Green

2012-02-27 18:12:23 EST

Created attachment 211701 [details]
mylyn/context/zip

Comment 7 Steffen Pingel

2012-05-16 07:02:43 EDT

David, can you move the change to git.eclipse.org/r?

Comment 8 David Green

2012-05-17 19:52:45 EDT

created a new review: https://git.eclipse.org/r/#change,6021

Comment 9 David Green

2013-08-02 12:44:16 EDT

Closed as part of backlog clean-up.  Please re-open if you'd like to see this revisited, perhaps with a contribution.