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mediawiki parser library

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Fixes #37 #38

Closed bruinsg closed 11 years ago

bruinsg commented 11 years ago

In the case where MediaWiki is behind an Apache server that does the authentication the userid/password need to be provided when the connection is opened or else the connection will fail.

schmir commented 11 years ago

hmm. this reuses the username/password used for authentication at mediawiki's api.php. why can't we have a dedicated username/password for apache?

bruinsg commented 11 years ago

Well, because that is the username and password that is used by mediawiki. The LDAP information is past on to the mediawiki in the HTTP header and then used for authentication and creation of the user in the mediawiki database incase the user doesn't exists yet. It is even possible to use the mediawiki preferences page to change the password in the LDAP database. For more info see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication

bruinsg commented 11 years ago

To be exact, we are using AutoAuthentication as described here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication/Configuration_Options#When_using_auto-authentication

Please let me know if you have any more questions/remarks.

schmir commented 11 years ago

Thanks for the explanation. I've merged the changes.