MediaWiki::API problem

danj35 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to upload onto my wiki running on a virtual server I created on my mac. However, I keep getting this error message back:

2: Unable to decode content returned by http://localhost:8888/mediawiki-1.16.5/api.php - Unknown content encoding? at event_text_builder.pl line 101.

I figured it may be something to do with the url, but I tried it with the main site (as listed on cpan) and got the same reply. Any ideas? There don't seem to be any discussions on this elsewhere, but then sometimes google isn't always your friend... The code is below:

use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use warnings;
use MediaWiki::API;
my $url = "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php";
    # Log into the wiki domain
    my $mw = MediaWiki::API->new();
    $mw->{config}->{api_url} = $url;
    # Username and password can be changed depending on the administra
+tor of the domain.
    my $username = "Dan_J";
    my $password = "password";
    
    #my $domain = 'MITdomain';
    # log in to the wiki
  $mw->login( { lgname => $username, lgpassword => $password } )
    || die $mw->{error}->{code} . ': ' . $mw->{error}->{details};
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Re: MediaWiki::API problem by Khen1950fx (Canon) on May 24, 2011 at 18:27 UTC
I tried it with the main site, using an anonymous login and found that the main site doesn't need lgname or lgpassword. I had no decoding errors, but I did add `binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(utf8)';` just in case. `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use MediaWiki::API; my $url = 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php'; my $mw = MediaWiki::API->new( {api_url => $url} ); binmode STDOUT,':encoding(utf8)'; if ( my $ref = $mw->api({ action => 'query', meta => 'siteinfo' } )) { print $ref->{query}->{general}->{sitename}, "\n"; } my $page = $mw->get_page( { title => 'Main Page' } ); print $page->{'*'}, "\n";` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: MediaWiki::API problem by danj35 (Sexton) on May 25, 2011 at 09:46 UTC
Thanks. That makes sense, but I'm still not getting anything (for the main wiki and my one). I'm beginning to think that it's more to do with my machine than anything else. This time I got back a "use of unitialised value" after trying to print the page. It's strange because if I print the $mw I get a hash of all of the necessary info. This is quite frustrating...	[reply]
Re^3: MediaWiki::API problem by Khen1950fx (Canon) on May 25, 2011 at 14:37 UTC
Backtrack and check that all the requirements are being met. Then run this script to make sure that all the dependencies are updated. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use CPAN; CPAN::Shell->install( "JSON", "WWW::RobotRules", "HTTP::Cookies", "Net::FTP", "IO::Socket::INET", "Net::HTTP", "HTTP::Daemon", "Digest::base", "Digest::MD5", "HTTP::Negotiate", "File::Listing", "HTML::Tagset", "XSLoader", "HTML::Parser", "Time::Local", "HTTP::Date", "Compress::Raw::Zlib", "Compress::Raw::Bzip2", "Scalar::Util", "IO::Uncompress::Inflate", "HTTP::Status", "Encode::Alias", "Encode::Locale", "LWP::MediaTypes", "MIME::Base64", "URI::Escape", "LWP::UserAgent", "Test::Harness", "Test::More", "MediaWiki::API"); [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: MediaWiki::API problem by NightRain (Initiate) on Sep 15, 2011 at 00:35 UTC
I ran into the same thing. However, it seems that is OS related. The same code works with no problem on Windows and Ubuntu. Didn't spent time to narrow what system setting on Mac OS X is causing a garbled HTTP response! Hope this helps!	[reply]