categoryinfo doesn't seem to support post
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	• bzimport
	Jun 27 2008, 6:14 AM

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Author: jutiphan

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I tried to POST the parameters, but it returns <error code="help" info=""> with the autogenerated help document.

Example string I put in POST:
api.php?action=query&prop=categoryinfo&format=xml&titles=Category:Foo|Category:Bar

Please look into this. Thai language makes the URL extremely long even with few long categories, thus quickly exceeds the URL length limit.

Version: 1.13.x
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://th.wikipedia.org/w/api.php

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:11 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Action-API.

• bzimport set Reference to bz14661.

• bzimport created this task.Jun 27 2008, 6:14 AM

Bryan.TongMinh wrote:

You need to POST only the query string part. Further you should make sure that your Content-Type is correctly set to application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Example request:

POST /w/api.php HTTP/1.0
Host: meta.wikimedia.org
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

action=query&prop=categoryinfo&format=xml&titles=Category:Foo|Category:Bar

This way it works for me. Not a bug.

jutiphan wrote:

Oh yes. My dad. sorry. It works fine now.

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